CONTENTS 



Xntroduction by Sir William Osier, Bart., M.D., F.R^., v. 



CHAPTER I 



1822—1843 



Origin of the Pasteur Family, 1 — Jean Joseph Pasteur, a Conscript in 

 1811; Sergeant-major in the 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3; a Knight 

 of the Legion of Honour, 4; his Marriage, 5; the Tannery at Dole, 

 6 — ^Birth of Louis Pasteur, his Childhood and Youth, 6. Studies in 

 Arbois College, 7. Departure for Paris, 11. Arrival in Paris, Hi 

 the Barbet Boarding feehool. Home Sickness, 11. Return to Jura, 

 Pasteur a Portrait Painter, 12; enters Bescangon Royal College, 13; 

 k Bachelier &s Lettres, a Preparation Master, 14; his Readings, 15. 

 Friendship with Chappuis, 18; a Bachelier ^s Sciences, 20; Pasteur 

 admitted to the Ecole Normale, 22; Sorbonne Lectures, Impressioa 

 produced by J. B. Dumas, 21. 



CHAPTER II 



1844—1849 



First Crystallographic Researches, 26; Pasteur a Curator in Balard's 

 Laboratory, works with Auguste Laurent, 32. Chemistry and 

 Physics Theses, 34. Pasteur reads a Paper at the Academie des 

 Sciences, 36. February days, 1848, 37. Molecular Dissymmetry, 

 38; J. J. Blot's Emotion at Pasteur's first Discovery, 41. Pasteur 

 Professor of Physics at Dijon, 43. Professor of Chemistry at the 

 Strasburg Faculty, his Friend Bertin, 45; M. Laurent, Rector oi 

 the Strasburg Academy, 47; Pasteur's Marriage, 51. 



CHAFTER III 



1850—1854 



Disgrace of the Strasburg Rector, 54. Letter from Biot to Pasteur's 

 Father, 57. Letter from J. B. Dumas, 60. Interview with Mitscher* 

 lich, 61. Pasteur in quest of Racemic Acid, in Germany, Austria 

 and Bohemia, 62. Pasteur a Elnight of the Legion of Honour, 70, 

 Blot's Congratulations, 70. Proposed Work, 72. 



CHAPTER IV 



1855—1859 



Pasteur Dean of the new Lille Faculty, 75; his Teaching, 77; First 

 Studies on Fermentations, 79. First Candidature for the Academy 



