i4.0 THE LIFE OF PASTEUR 



harmony of the forehead. In 1886, Bonnat painted, for th^ 

 brewer Jacobsen, who wished to present it to Mme. Pasteur a 

 large portrait which may be called an ofiScial one. Pasteur is 

 standing in rather an artificial attitude, which might be 

 imperious, if his left hand was not resting on the shoulder of 

 his granddaughter, a child of six, with clear pensive eyes. In 

 that same year, Edelfeldt, the Finnish painter, begged to be 

 allowed to come into the laboratory for a few sketches. Pasteur 

 iame and went, attending to his work and taking no notice of 

 the painter. One day that Edelfeldt was watching him thus, 

 deep in observation, his forehead lined with almost painful 

 thoughts, he undertook to portray the savant in his meditative 

 attitude. Pasteur is standing clad in a short brown coat, an 

 experimental card in his left hand, in his right, a phial contain- 

 ing a fragment of rabic marrow, the expression in his eyes 

 entirely concentrated on the scientific problem. 



During the year 1888, Pasteur, after spending the morning 

 with his patients, used to go and watch the buildings for the 

 Pasteur Institute which were being erected in the Rue Dutot. 

 11,000 square yards of ground had been acquired in the midst 

 of some market gardens. Instead of rows of hand-lights and 

 young lettuces, a stone building, with a Louis XIII facade, was 

 now being constructed. An interior gallery connected the main 

 building with the large wings. The Pasteur Institute was to be 

 at the same time a great dispensary for the treatment of hydro- 

 phobia, a centre of research on virulent and contagious diseases, 

 and also a teaching centre. M. Duclaux's class of biological 

 chemistry, held at the Sorbonne, was about to be transferred to 

 the Pasteur Institute, where Dr. Roux would also give a course 

 of lectures on technical microbia. The '^service" of vaccina- 

 tions against anthrax was entrusted to M. Chamberland. (Tha 

 statistics of 1882-1887 gave a total of 1,600,000 sheep and nearly 

 200,000 oxen.) There would also be, under M. Metchnikoff^s 

 direction, some private laboratories, the monkish cells of the 

 Pastorians. 



At the end of October, the work was almost completed; 

 Pasteur invited the President of the Republic to come and 

 inaugurate the Institute. **I shall certainly not fail to do so,'* 

 answered Camot; **your Institute is a credit to France.'^ 



On November 14, politicians, colleagues, friends, collabora- 

 tors, pupils assembled in the large library of the new Institute. 

 Pasteur had the pleasure of seeing before him, in the first rank. 



