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of Sciences, 81. Lactic Fermentation, 83. Pasteur Administrator 

 of the Ecole Normftle, 84. Alcoholic Fermentation, 85. Death oi 

 Pasteur's eldest Daughter, 86. 



CHAPTER V 



1860—1864 



So-called spontaneous Generation, 88. Polemics and Experimants, 92. 

 Renewed Candidature for the Academic des Sciences, 100. Lectures 

 on Crystallography, 102. Pasteur elected a Member of the Academie 

 des Sciences, 103. Conversation with Napoleon III, 104. Lecture 

 'at the Sorbonne on so-called spontaneous Generation, 106. Pasteur 

 and the Students of the Ecole Normale, 109. Discussions raised 

 by the question of spontaneous Generation, 111. Studies on 

 Wine, 113. 



CHAPTER VI 



1865—1870 



The Silkworm Disease; Pasteur sent to Alais, 115. Death of Jean 

 Joseph Pasteur, 118. Return to Paris, 121; Pasteur's Article on 

 J. B. Dumas' Edition of Lavoisier's Works, 122. Death of his 

 Daughter Camille, 123. Candidature of Ch. Robin for the Academie 

 des Sciences, 124. Letters exchanged between Ste. Beuve and 

 Pasteur, 124. The Cholera, 126. Pasteur at Compi^gne Palace, 

 127. Return to the Card, 130; Pasteur's Collaborators, 130. Death 

 of his Daughter Cecile, 131. Letters to Duruy, 131. Publication of 

 the Studies on Wine, 133. Pasteur's Article on Claude Bernard's 

 Work, 134. Pasteur's Work in the South of France, 138. Letter 

 from Duruy, 139. Pasteur a Laureate of the Exhibition, 140; 

 solemn Distribution of Rewards, 141. Ste. Beuve at the Senate, 

 142. Disturbance at the Ecole Normale, 143. Pasteur's Letter to 

 Napoleon III, 147. Lecture on the Manufacture of Vinegar at 

 Orleans, 148. Council of Scientists at the Tuileries, 154. Studies 

 on Silkworm Diseases (continued), 155. Heating of wises, 157. 

 Paralytic Stroke, 160; Illness, 161; private Reading, 163. Enlarge- 

 ment of the Laboratory, 164. Pasteur in the South, 166. Succesg 

 of his Method of opposing Silkworm Diseases, 168. Pasteur at 

 Villa Vicentina, Austria, 173. Interview with Liebig, 176. 



CHAPTER VII 



1870—1872 



Pasteur in Strasburg, 177; the War, 179; Pasteur at Arbois, 180. The 

 Academie des Sciences during the Si^e of Paris, 186. Pasteur 

 returns his Doctor's Diploma to the Bonn Faculty of Medicine, 189. 

 Retreat of Bourbaki's Army Corps, 192 j Pasteur at Pontarlier. 

 192. Pasteur at Lyons, 194. "Why France found no superior Mea 



