administration of proper vaccines ; John H Foulger had studied O 8 \ 

 the "peculiar" activities of urea as an antiseptic and a bacteri- 

 cide; and Alexander R Johnston, the pharmacological and 

 colloid effects of the toxic amines; Bernice Elaine Eddy had 

 disclosed the existence of protective substances in the sputum 

 of pneumonic patients at the time of crisis; etc; etc. 



H Lara of the School of hygiene and public health in Manila 

 now inquired if some "shells had arrived safely." They had. 

 In one of his dreamy moments, Wherry set heart upon the half- 

 ton bivalves indigenous to the tropics. Now, to his pride and 

 joy, a pair reposed before the porch stairs of his Ridgeway 

 avenue house. Lara continued (July 12, 1935) : 



We are very grateful for the interest that you entertain about 

 what goes on here. — The sunset of Manila Bay, the lake and 

 river sides, and the many lanes that once made your acquain- 

 tance are vying with each other in clothing themselves trim. 

 They tell me that they wish to be seen by you again and that 

 they will never get tired of posing for you and of revealing 

 to you their hidden beauties. — Nature's truth is greater than 

 word. I lack word. Therefore I must stop. 



THE handicap of illness forced him to delegate an increas- 

 ing fraction of the day's demands to his coworkers — 

 so his junior students heard him no more in inspiring lecture; 

 and his senior, saw him less in hours of conference. To the 

 succession of letters that tried to make him member of, 

 sponsor for, lecturer to, or contributor in, every type of social, 

 health, medical and bacteriological organization or congress 

 known to man, he had to say no. It was all too much — also, a 

 bit too late. How would he spend the modicum of energy that 

 had returned to him as spring opened in 1936? Most, he wished 

 to see the lepers again ; and a glimpse of his children would be 

 pleasant. Why not Hawaii where Wayson had invited him? 

 There, too, would be Badger (successor to Wayson) and 

 Fennel and Brunot — war horses with him out of campaigns 

 of earlier decades; and those tropic palms that hid yaws and 

 sprue and marsh fever. So, in middle May, he went. 



September 29, 1936, Wherry wrote to Tashiro from Hono- 

 lulu: "I have had a wonderful summer." But the final days 



