five, as greatest disciple of a master, Frank Billings) ; Louis 2^^ 

 Schwab (seventy, because Cincinnati's graduate, physician 

 and mayor) ; William Thompson Sedgwick (sixty-five, for 

 proving that the man and not the thing makes the difference 

 between an engineer and a plumber — he was so appreciative 

 of his distinction that he ordered his burial in Cincinnati's 

 gown) ; Charles Rupert Stockard (forty-one, for seeing men 

 in dogs) ; Henry Baldwin Ward (fifty-five, a zoological ency- 

 clopedist who saw West in East, and East in West) ; John 

 Clarence Webster (fifty-seven, for knowing obstetrics as 

 physiology, and gynecology as pathology) . 



Nominated, approved of senate, but deferred, was B K 

 Rachford (unrecognized till now for his scientific discoveries 

 and too recently responsible for financial contribution to the 

 university not to have the cause for his distinction blurred) . 



Public as opposed to private higher education thus proved 

 for a moment, that it, too, could know its great. 



In this year Wherry expanded his household. He had added 

 sister Nellie, to whom he said he "owed" it, back in 1916. Now 

 father and mother came out of India, all to continue in his 

 house to the time of their deaths some years later (t 1928, 

 1927, 1926). For a year, brother Frank McCuskey, sister 

 Lillian and their four children f urloughed with him. With his 

 own two, it made for six juveniles about the place. One was 

 stricken with whooping-cough. He inoculated the remainder 

 of the lot and the elders prophylactically with his pertussis 

 vaccine. All escaped infection except himself — the shoemaker 

 had failed to sole his own shoes. 



He broke his two-year silence in the public press with some 

 articles. His love of all living creatures, his knowledge of the 

 exotic, had gained for him the affection of Cincinnati's famed 

 animal dealers — Madam Haller and son Louis of the Harz 

 mountains canary vivarium situated on Vine street in Cincin- 

 nati. Impressed — after years — of Wherry's capacities, they 

 would now commit their dying and dead to him instead of to 

 the incinerator. Thus had come a Mexican parrot. He described 

 in it a leprosy-like disease of the lungs [64]. 



Just another "case" report (one page long with two pages 

 of illustration!) ! In the light of later endeavors, however, a 

 point of historic significance lay therein. He told of his 



