38^ THE LIFE OF PASTEUR 



tary of the Academy to obtain the Lacaze prize for M. Cailletet, 

 the inventor of the well-known apparatus for the liquefaction of 

 gases. 



J. B. Dumas died on April 11, 1884. Pasteur was then about 

 to start for Edinburgh on the occasion of the tercentenary of the 

 celebrated Scotch University. The ''Institut de France," 

 invited to take part in these celebrations, had selected represen- 

 tatives from each of the five Academies: the Academie 

 Fran^aise was sending M. Caro; the Academy of Sciences, 

 Pasteur and de Lesseps; the Academy of Moral Sciences, M. 

 Greard; the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters, M. Perrot; 

 and the Academy of Fine Arts, M. Eugene Guillaume. The 

 College de France sent M. Guillaume Guizot, and the Academy 

 of Medicine Dr. Henry Gueneau de Mussy. 



Pasteur much wished to relinquish this official journey; the 

 idea that he would not be able to follow to the grave the incom- 

 parable teacher of his youth, the counsellor and confidant of his 

 life, was infinitely painful to him. 



He was however reconciled to it by one of his colleagues, 

 M. Mezieres, who was going to Edinburgh on behalf of the 

 Minister of Public Instruction, and who pointed out to him that 

 the best way of honouring Dumas* memory lay in remembering 

 Dumas ^ chief object in life — the interests of France. Pasteur 

 went, hoping that he would have an opportunity of speaking of 

 Dumas to the Edinburgh students. 



In London, the French delegates had the pleasant surprise 

 of finding that a private saloon had been reserved to tak-e Pasteur 

 and his friends to Edinburgh. This hospitality was offered to 

 Pasteur by one of his numerous admirers, Mr. Younger, an 

 Edinburgh brewer, as a token of gratitude for his discoveries in 

 the manufacture of beer. He and his wife and children wel- 

 comed Pasteur with the warmest cordiality, when the trail} 

 reached Edinburgh; the principal inhabitants of the great 

 Scotch city vied with each other in entertaining the French 

 delegates, who were delighted with their reception. 



The next morning, they, and the various representatives 

 from all parts of the world, assembled in the Cathedral of St. 

 Giles, where, with the exalted feeling which, in the Scotch 

 people, mingles religious with political life, the Town Council 

 had decided that a service should inaugurate the rejoicings. 

 The Rev. Robert Flint, mounting that pulpit from which the 

 impetuous John Knox, Calviji's friend and disciple, had 



