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his close friends such men as Balard, Dumas, Biot, 

 Deville, Senarmont, and Claude Bernard, and it 

 was his pride to have drawn around him as pupils 

 and assistants men such as Roux, Joubert, Cham- 

 berland and Duclaux, who have made themselves 

 famous by researches in fields opened up by his 

 labors. When these men speak or write of their 

 master it is in a tone which reveals the great ad- 

 miration and devotion with which he inspired them. 

 Pasteur's essay on organized corpuscles existing 

 in the atmosphere gained the prize which the 

 Academy of Sciences offered for the best experi- 

 mental investigation of the question of spontaneous 

 generation. Several of his scientific friends endeav- 

 ored to have Pasteur made a member of the 

 Academy. As this learned body is one of limited 

 membership, a new member is elected only when 

 a vacancy arises through the death or resignation 

 of one of its number. In 1857 a vacancy arose in 

 the section in mineralogy and Pasteur was urged 

 to present himself as a candidate on the basis of 

 his researches on crystallography, for which he had 

 already received the Rumford medal from the 

 Royal Society of London. Although ardently sup- 

 ported by Biot, who had been his steadfast friend 

 ever since his demonstration of right-handed and 



