i ~] r\ Side. The master had opportunity for the first time to proffer 

 Wherry those better backgrounds for his work that its quality 

 deserved. But matters medical down in Cincinnati, too, had 

 taken a turn. Woolley had been dean three years, and no job 

 had ever been worth that much time to him. Furthermore, 

 Cincinnati's new great hospital was about to open. It was 

 shortly to be the body of Cincinnati's medical school. Chris- 

 tian R Holmes had built it; was now looked to, to run it. He 

 was professor, also, in the college — what better sense than to 

 make him the boss of the whole outfit? First of his orders con- 

 cerned Wherry who would henceforth be head of a new and 

 separate department — bacteriology and preventive medicine 

 — at increased salary. Wherefore Wherry replied to Hektoen's 

 letter as follows (February 15,1913): 



I was very glad to get your kind note but hardly know how 

 to answer it. There are many reasons why I should like to be 

 in Chicago. On the other hand I have felt quite well satisfied 

 here for they have fulfilled all their promises — given me a full 

 professorship at 3000 and required only 3 months of teaching. 

 In a year we will be in our new pathology building. The only 

 unpleasant complication I can foresee is the possibility of a 

 shortage in equipment and supplies. 



Then, it has been a great source of satisfaction that the 

 men here have not urged me to "make good" by publishing 

 something every three months. I am very slow in planning 

 and carrying out experimental work and in analyzing the 

 results; and any urging would upset the apple cart, I'm sure. 

 This is especially true since I have had an obsession concerning 

 the importance of going back and beginning the study of the 

 biology of bacteria all over again; and work with synthetic 

 media is, to say the least, discouraging. Such work, aided by 

 the principles of selection, seems to me to offer as great possi- 

 bilities and results as those that have been obtained by bota- 

 nists. So, if nothing interferes, I think I will keep on with this 

 sort of work. 



On the ancient principle that it never rains but it pours — 

 Wherry was thirty-eight and had lived through many drought 

 years — three further requests came to him. W G MacCallum, 

 professor of pathology in Columbia, asked: "I am writing to 



