1 Af\ what it was all about ; and the colleagues in uniform thought 

 sufficient the presentation at women's club teas of the claims of 

 one garbage cover manufacturer over another. Wherefore, 

 news from the medical department of Nebraska's university 

 (part in Lincoln, part in Omaha) of what it was doing en- 

 thused him. Ward had been joined by Woolley, finished with 

 his contract in Siam and with an Order of the white elephant 

 on his chest. Arthur D Dunn (professor of medicine in 

 Creighton) had placed him in the professorship for pathology 

 in the rival school. "Hurrah! A letter from Bill. Arigato gozai- 

 mas," Woolley wrote. The crowd there was going good. "Se- 

 cure for me some skins of the ground squirrel and forward," 

 Ward commanded. In acknowledging them and the simul- 

 taneous receipt of pathological specimens, photographs and 

 flea sets, he exclaimed: "Splendid! . . . What can I send you 

 of half such interest and as reasonable return?" A late addition 

 had come into this group — Creighton Wellman. Missourian, 

 thirty- four, he was just returned from Portuguese West 

 Africa with a past, many writings and a startling collection of 

 Coleoptera. He was lecturing on the relation of tropical dis- 

 eases to temperate climes but needed more fixed employment. 



Wherry invited him to talk in Oakland. (Ward had warned: 

 "Such a man should not be asked to travel long distances and 

 offer his services to institutions or societies in return for a vote 

 of thanks.") Thereafter Wherry succeeded quickly in making 

 Wellman the new professor of tropical medicine in the Oak- 

 land school. This start, pushed further, would have estab- 

 lished a school for tropical medicine where most logically it 

 belonged. Even Ward was a possibility: "If you know a man 

 who would give money, if only a little indeed, for a research 

 laboratory and let me get free from this abominable legis- 

 lative work, I should welcome the chance." But the west coast 

 knew only the East and Western Europe, not Cathay. 



Wherry expressed his feelings when he read Leviticus to the 

 doctors of his state in April. The plague situation in America 

 was never printed: 



. . . plague, like cholera, has its endemic centers, starting 

 from which it spreads in epidemic form at shorter or longer 

 intervals. One of these is situated on the northern declivity 



