CONTENTS 



Introduction by Sir William Osier, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., v. 



CHAPTER I 



18221843 



Origin of the Pasteur Family, 1 Jean Joseph Pasteur, a Conscript in 

 1811; Sergeant-major in the 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3; a Knight 

 of the Legion of Honour, 4; his Marriage, 6; the Tannery at Dole, 

 6 Birth of Louis Pasteur, his Childhood and Youth, 6. Studies in 

 Arbois College, 7. Departure for Paris, 11. Arrival in Paris, 11; 

 the Bar bet Boarding School, Home Sickness, 11. Return to Jura, 

 Pasteur a Portrait Painter, 12 ; enters Besan9on Royal College, 13 ; 

 a Bachelier es Lettres, a Preparation Master, 14; his Readings, 16. 

 Friendship with Chappuis, 18 ; a Bachelier es Sciences, 20 ; Pasteur 

 admitted to the Ecole Normale, 22; Sorbonne Lectures, Impression 

 produced by J. B. Dumas, 21. 



CHAPTER II 



18441849 



First Crystallographic Researches, 26; Pasteur a Curator in Balard'a 

 Laboratory, works with Auguste Laurent, 32. Chemistry and 

 Physics Theses, 34. Pasteur reads a Paper at the Academic des 

 Sciences, 36. February days, 1848, 37. Molecular Dissymmetry, 

 88; J. J. Biot's Emotion at Pasteur's first Discovery, 41. Pasteur 

 Professor of Physics at Dijon, 43. Professor of Chemistry at the 

 Strasburg Faculty, his Friend Bertin, 46; M. Laurent, Rector of 

 the Strasburg Academy, 47; Pasteur's Marriage, 51. 



CHAPTER III 

 18501854 



Disgrace of tHe Strasburg Rector, 54. Letter from Biot to Pasteur's 

 Father, 67. Letter from J. B. Dumas, 60. Interview with Mitscher- 

 lich, 61. Pasteur in quest of Racemic Acid, in Germany, Austria 

 and Bohemia, 62. Pasteur a Knight of the Legion of Honour, 70. 

 Biot's Congratulations, 70. Proposed Work, 72. 



CHAPTER IV 



1855 ia59 



Pasteur Dean of the new Lille Faculty, 75; his Teaching, 77; First 

 Studies on Fermentations, 79. First Candidature for the Academy 



