98 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



One day was devoted exclusively to the exercises in honor of tlie late 

 Louis Pasteur. In the morning the congress assembled in the chapel of 

 Notre Dame and placed a memorial wreath on the coffln of the eminent 

 savant. The final resting place of the body is to be in the court of the 

 Pasteur Institute, where a tomb and monument are to be erected by 

 popular subscription from all parts of the world. Later a most inter- 

 esting visit was made to the Pasteur Institute, where the laboratories 

 clinical rooms, etc., were inspected, and to the stables of the institute 

 at Garches, where are kept the 130 horses used to furnish the anti- 

 diphtheritic serum. 



Visits were also made to numerous laboratories, museums, botanical 

 gardens, public buildings, manufactories, etc., in the vicinity of Paris, 

 including the national porcelain works at Sevres. One evening a lec- 

 ture was given to tlie congress, in the amphitheater of the ISorboune, on 

 color photography, by Professor Lippman, who has achieved an interna- 

 tional reputation by his researches in this important process. Another 

 evening a banquet was given to the chairmen of committees of organiza- 

 tion and to the delegates of foreign Governments, under the presidency 

 of the minister of finances, which was attended by nearly 500 i)ersons. 



The final session of the congress was held in the grand amphitheater 

 of the Sorbonne, under the presidency of the minister of commerce and 

 industry. It was voted to hold the next congress at Vienna in 1898. 



