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sum was raised, and since that time a large number of 

 English patients have gone over to Paris, the poorer 

 ones having their expenses defrayed from the fund. 



In 1889 the Royal Society invited Pasteur to deliver 

 the Croonian Lecture. Unfortunately his health did 

 not permit him to undertake the duty, but he ap- 

 pointed Roux, his chief assistant, in his place. Since 

 that time, mainly through the influence of Mr. Long, 

 then President of the Local Government Board, 

 this dreadful disease has been effectively stamped out 

 in England. This has been accomplished by the 

 humane system of a careful and systematic muzzling of 

 all dogs in the country. Of course an outcry was 

 raised even against this measure by the so-called 

 friends of the canine race, but in spite of this it came 

 into force. I remember asking Pasteur why preventive 

 measures of this kind were not adopted in France. 

 He replied that the French public would not stand 

 such coercive measures, and therefore it was necessary 

 to abide by the curative system. 



On May 4th, 1889, I was asked by Lord Leighton, 

 the President of the Royal Academy, to respond for 

 Scienceatthe Academy dinner, and, speaking of the close 

 alliance of art and science, I referred to Pasteur's work 

 in the following terms : " The labours of both the 

 artist and the man of science have the same end in 

 view. Both serve the same goddess Nature both 

 strive to discover her secrets ; the aim of both is to 

 express, whether by the brush or chisel, or by the 

 written and spoken word, the truths which Nature thus 

 reveals. Only to those who serve her faithfully, 

 whether in the studio or in the laboratory, does she 

 unfold her secrets, and only those whose pride it is to 

 incite in others the love of Nature which they them- 

 selves enjoy can clearly expound her ways. Moreover, 



