It was to elaborate upon a telegram sent me earlier, and in his 1 AC) 

 own name, to visit Cincinnati. He had suggested my con- 

 sideration as physiologist. "Woolley and I have been operat- 

 ing on Dabney (on the part of the university) and Forch- 

 heimer (on the part of the medical faculty) to get busy and 

 fill this chair . . . Dabney visited the east ... I judge 

 that the remarks were not in your favor." 



For myself, I was not particularly interested, for Freer of 

 the Philippine service had passed through California. I had 

 accepted the chair for pathology in the Manila school and was 

 awaiting sailing orders. But attack upon the character of one 

 of his friends was more than Wherry would ever stand. Hav- 

 ing continued "operation" in Cincinnati, he sent me a tele- 

 gram (January 20, 1910) that made me his colleague: "Full 

 professorship free field come and see us without abandoning 

 other position." It was after this visit to "see" and to "lecture" 

 that my appointment followed and he wrote (February 22, 

 1910): 



I use ruled paper because it is easier to write in a straight l me . 

 The note you dropped out of the train was finally picked up 

 and arrived the other day telling us that you were safely on 

 your way back. I felt quite relieved — not that I think that 

 this is such a wicked world, but you are so young. In spite 

 of that, however, most of the men seem delighted with the 

 news of your appointment. I have not told them that you 

 might come before September but think that if you can 

 arrange it, it would be a good stunt to get settled and get 

 some research started, though they say it is as hot as Hades 

 in Cinti in the summertime. ... I have started some work 

 on the effects of acids, bases & salts on bacteria — have only 

 just gotten some standard solutions made up — and am going 

 to work first with the cholera spirillum owing to its great 

 susceptibility to the H ion. By the way, I spotted a case of 

 amoebic dysentery the other day — in a physician's wife — 

 undiagnosed for eight months and apparently contracted here. 

 If I can only find a few more examples of tropical disease 

 perhaps we can get Wellman, too. I do hope Stanford doesn't 

 make an ass of itself by letting him get away from the coast, 

 for that is the place for a school. 



