Sadder notes came out of a bereaved west. Ricketts in- 1 Zl"7 

 quired: "Why didn't they ask you to Stanford?" and Geo 

 W McCoy ventured: "I never get tired of rubbing it into the 

 two universities here for letting you get away." Venzke's 

 Ger-manic depression put him in hospital. A report stated: 

 "He is suffering from the well-known nervous manifestations 

 of subacute poisoning with ethyl hydroxide." 



After two weeks in Cincinnati Wherry could write a 

 complete description of the place (September 29, 1909) : 



. . . Now that I have gotten over the shock which the dirt 

 of Cinti gives me, and have grown accustomed to seeing Billie 

 look like a coal-heaver, and have indefinitely postponed get- 

 ting another glimpse of Mt Tamalpais, and have resigned 

 myself to the separation from Oakland — perhaps I can give 

 you a fair idea of what there is here. 



The medical college building is a pippin, sticking right out 

 of the side of a hill. Say, it's 100 feet to the side and four 

 stories high — brick — large and small rooms with high ceilings, 

 and in its general appearance reminds me of Rush. Histology 

 and embryology labs in basement; physiology lab, lecture 

 amphitheater & office on first floor; pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy on second floor. I don't remember the third floor but on 

 the fourth are the laboratory for physiological chemistry and 

 the dissecting room. The building was in bad shape but they 

 have done much to improve it and it will do until they get 

 into their new buildings perhaps two or three years from now. 

 A second part of the work is given on the university grounds 

 and a third part at the city and Good Samaritan hospitals. 

 The city hospital reminds me of [Chicago's] Cook county 

 and smells just like it. Since most of the inhabitants are crazy 

 Dutchmen there is no difficulty about posting every case that 

 dies. There is a large clinic building attended by hundreds of 

 patients in direct connection with the college and situated 

 within 200 feet of it. The equipment is really ample for teach- 

 ing purposes; and so far as research goes, Woolley and I will 

 do all our work at the city hospital lab. 



The men have received us in a most generous spirit and 

 while no doubt there are some hard feelings as a result of the 

 merger, all appears smooth on top. President Dabney is a 



