2 6 2 ^ e memDers of that expedition certainly had a hard time with 

 disease although it was successful otherwise. The trouble with 

 being a physician to an expedition is that you have to deal 

 with a lot of egoists who won't take advice. I am not sure that 

 that was the reason for the illness in the Roosevelt expedition 

 but that is my idea. 



I have started culturing the leprosy bacillus but so far with 

 negative results. — Please give my best to the Black faculty. 



H 



E wrote again to Craig Howard on October 26, 1929: 



. . . Let me tell you now that between your efforts and Dr 

 Strietmann's I was treated like royalty on the Dollar line. I 

 liked eating with the captain on each boat, too, but several 

 times I had to dress for it and that bored me. — I wish I could 

 get a record of the marvelously lighted scenes we are sur- 

 rounded by all the time; but I am too bum an artist. However, 

 if I ever do learn to paint I am coming back to the tropics. 



I certainly miss the laboratory. The reason I am writing you 

 so long a letter is that I am sort of wound up — it is just after 

 my maiden lecture and quiz to 1 2 students taking bacteriology 

 in the course on Public health education. They are to teach 

 public health in the schools. It will be interesting, in a way, 

 to see what we can make of them — perhaps just what we make 

 of our own students. 



A couple of months ago we gave the Moss aptitude tests for 

 medical schools to the sophomore medical class. The results 

 show that the students here are just as capable as those in the 

 medical schools of the USA. That is interesting if true — for 

 the grades made in the aptitude tests corresponded exactly 

 with the grades made by the same class in biochemistry. I 

 believe that any old sort of test will throw the students into 

 three classes. 



A letter to me was dated November 22, 1929: 



We returned last Sunday from Baguio. Unfortunately the 

 Igorrotes are not allowed to come to town in their pristine 

 glory but must wear shirts. This requirement was instituted 

 of the missionaries, who thereby think themselves exerting a 



