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Still, he guided the work of the younger men, the 

 Pastorians, the workers at the Institute : he was 

 incessantly helping and encouraging them. The 

 story of his old age must be read in the Vie de 

 Pasteur. On June 13, 1895, he said goodbye to the 

 Institute. He died at Villeneuve, on September 28 

 of that year. Madame Pasteur died at Arbois, 

 September 24, 1910. 



Permission has been given by the editor of the 

 Spectator to quote from an article, by an anonymous 

 writer, which was published in that journal in 

 1910:- 



" There are more than sixty Pasteur Institutes : 

 but I am thinking of the Paris Institute. At the 

 end of one of its long corridors, down a few steps, 

 is the little chapel where Pasteur lies. . . . From 

 the work of the place, done in the spirit of the 

 Master, and to his honour, you go straight to him. 

 Where he worked, there he rests. 



" Walls, pavement, and low-vaulted roof, this 

 little chapel, every inch of it, is beautiful : to see its 

 equal you must visit Rome or Ravenna. On its 

 walls of rare marbles are the names of his great 

 discoveries Dyssymetrie Moleculaire, Fermenta- 

 tions, Generations dites Spontane'es, Etudes sur le 

 Vin, Maladies des Vers a Soie, Etudes sur la Biere, 

 Maladies Virulentes, Virus Vaccins, Prophylaxie 

 de la Rage. In the mosaics, of gold and of all 

 colours, you read them again ; in the wreathed 

 pattern of hops, vines, and mulberry leaves, and in 

 the figures of cattle, sheep, dogs, and poultry. In 



