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was in southern France or northern Africa. Ret^rcttably wc do 

 not know more of what took pUice on this first of Dr. Smith's 

 visits to tliis world famous institution." 



About 1908," in a C^icrman catalogue of second-hand books, he 

 had seen the title of a book, Pasteur, histoire d'un esprit, by T^mile 

 Duclaux. Straightway he had ordered it, because of its subject 

 and its author,' and was puzzled, since the book was published 

 in France in 1896, why he had never come across it in any 

 library or literary review or known any fellow scientist who had 

 read it. A book on Pasteur! That was of utmost importance. 

 And by Duclaux, director of the Pasteur Institute from 1895 

 until his death in 1904 and closely associated with the institution 

 from its beginnings in 1888! His name was enough. Smith 

 "' devoured page after page, marveling more and more at the 

 wonderful breadth and perspicacity of the presentation. Pasteur 

 seemed alive in its pages, and Duclaux not less alive. No book 

 about a scientific man ever interested him more, or could be 

 written, it seemed, with a more appreciative and discriminating 

 touch." When finished with his reading, he wTOte on the margin 

 of its last page, " The most useful book I have read in a long 



time." 



While at the Institut Pasteur, Smith obtained permission from 

 the Institut and Madame Emile Duclaux to translate into English 

 Pasteur, histoire d'un esprit. Madame Duclaux, herself a figure 

 in English and French literature as a poetess and writer of prose, 

 had been Mrs. James Darmesteter before her marriage to Duclaux, 

 and her maiden name had been Agnes Mary Robinson. An author 

 of many books, she had written in 1906 a book on her husband's 

 life. La vie de tmile Duclaux. This book, out of print by the 

 year 1920 when Smith's and Miss Hedges' translation, Pasteur, 

 The History of a Mind, w^as published, was made the basis of 

 Dr. Smith's study of the life and work of Duclaux, which study 

 comprised the " Introduction " to the translated volume on Pasteur. 

 Madame Duclaux in 1913 presented Smith with a copy of her 

 book. 



The other scientific institution which Smith visited while in 

 Paris in 1913 was the French government's Laboratory of Plant 



^ These facts are taken from Dr. Smith's Journal of a third European trip 1921 

 * Introduction, Pasteur, The history of a niiud, op. cit., v-vi. 



