men which you will like." Two weeks thereafter he wrote 2^7 

 from Canada where he had motored (August 13, 1922) : 



I do wish that we could do something for Mrs Leonard's com- 

 fort. . . . We have had a lovely time on Lake Joseph. We 

 are looking at several places that are for sale — two islands and 

 three points. One island in particular is a peach. It is hard to 

 find a good house, good boathouse, good wharf boats, canoes, 

 pine trees and a beautiful view for our price but we are looking 

 just the same. 



A letter dated August 25, 1922 from Lakeside to which he 

 had returned, showed him with a mad on; but humorous too: 

 "I have sent the Board of directors a protest on the treatment 

 of my department. I need to prove definitely, right now, 

 whether I am a guinea pig or not." He appended what he called 

 "an attempt to improve my mind." In a one-minute essay 

 headed, Evolution — Insect or Man? he reflected upon the 

 origins of the then so popular "vitamins:" 



Insects have always chosen the germ of the seed in which to lay 

 their eggs, for long ago the experimental method taught them 

 that in it lay the food necessary for the growth and nourish- 

 ment of their young. 



Civilized Man (immersed in the conceit of his superiority) 

 has for centuries thrown away the germ to feed himself upon 

 the left-overs. Only recently, and by adopting the same 

 experimental method, has he discovered that the insect was 

 right. 



He concluded: "Get Hearst's International for Aug, for the 

 beginning of a good series on the pill peddlers by De Kruif . 

 You will like it." 



FOR play, he turned to a group of outlaws for whose gath- 

 ering Edmund M Baehr had been chiefly responsible 

 (associate professor in physiology, neurologist, ex-member of 

 Ohio's board of charities and corrections, ex-service man) . It 

 had agglomerated about a table in Mecklenburg's — ex-beer 

 — garden when week-ends, holidays or the summer closed the 

 eating emporium of the medical school. Membership was 

 voluntary and self-induced. Though the group could count 



