Initial discovery of the sticky nature of the surface of 1 Q1 

 amcebse Wherry attributed to Sellards and his coworker in 

 this paper, G L Kite. When in their gelatinous form amoebae 

 were always thus sticky; not, however, when in the flagellated 

 state of their existence. While their paper detailed experiments 

 entirely bacteriological, Wherry assigned senior authorship to 

 Kite. It was his way of expressing publicly the high regard 

 he had for Kite's discoveries who had used the Barber pipette 

 for the dissection of the single cell. An amoeba, he showed, 

 might be sliced as so much meat; certain structures seen 

 within cells and assumed to be liquid (like the reproduction 

 "astrospheres") were more nearly solid and could be dragged 

 out of the cells as sugar crystals out of jelly; also, the surface 

 of cells was anatomically scarcely differentiate from their 

 general mass. "Kite is condemned as crazy because he has 

 proved all the accepted physico-chemical notions of the living 

 cell wrong," he wrote me. Perhaps the wish fathered the fact. 

 Kite visited a neurological institute; and in another year was 

 one in the history of science with Robert Mayer and Ignaz 

 Philipp Semmelweis. 



Aunt Fannie's death eased things financial. The house at 

 759 Ridgeway avenue and a bequest came to Marie; much of 

 the other property went to foreign missions and a fund for 

 "worn out" preachers of the Methodist church. Enough 

 remained over for the education of the children and to express 

 Aunt Fannie's deep-seated affection for Wherry, in spite of 

 his failure to be of one mind with her in biological philosophy. 

 Her estate set aside the sum of thirty thousand for the use of 

 his laboratory. He needed it sorely enough, and yet before the 

 gift had come into his hands he had assigned the half of it to 

 a brother division in the medical school (mine) . 



August of 1914 brought the War in Europe. In November 

 the father commented: 



The war's various fortunes render mail service uncertain . . . 

 Give our warmest love to Dr & Mrs Nast who must be greatly 

 distressed. We are all subscribing here for the support of the 

 German missionaries in India. A united movement among 

 about 4000 missions will bring a large sum even at monthly 

 subscriptions of Rs 5/ each. 



