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Talamon, Charles (1850 - ). French physician and pathologist. 

 Student of pneumococcus. Discovered it independently of Frankel. 



Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892). English poet. Laureate and knighted 

 baronet. Son of a clergyman, brother of two other poets, Charles 

 and Frederick T. Born at Somersby, in Lincolnshire, educated 

 at Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of charming lyrics, elegies, 

 odes, epical verse, and dramas. The most distinguished and finished 

 English poet of the 19th century and the one who best expressed the 

 prevalent sentiment of scientific and social unrest, with which he 

 mingled a deep religious strain. He lived a very retired life. 

 "Smokes infinite tobacco" (Carlyle). For portraits see Alfred 

 Lord Tennyson, A memoir by his son (the original 2 vol. ed.) and 

 Cameron's "Tennyson and His Friends." 



Thenard, Louis Jacques de (1777-1857). French chemist. (See 

 Gay-Lussac.) Professor in the College of France and in the Poly- 

 technic School. Discovered cobalt blue (Thenard's blue) and 

 hydrogen peroxide. With Gay-Lussac discovered boron. Dis- 

 covered an improved way of making white lead. A great and 

 genial teacher. He is said to have had 40,000 students. His 

 "Traite de chimie elementaire" passed through six editions and 

 was translated into German. Member of the Institute and Peer 

 of France. For portrait see Arnault. Biog. Nouvelle Contemp. 

 1825, 19, p. 424. 



Thomas, Philippe Etienne (1843 ). French veterinarian. 



Thuillier, Louis Ferdinand (1856-1883). French pathologist. A 

 student, then brilliant associate of Pasteur. Discovered with Pasteur 

 the cause of "rouget" and a vaccine for it. Collaborated on an- 

 thrax and on rabies. Died of cholera in Egypt where he had gone 

 to study a violent outbreak of the disease. 



"C'6tait une nature profond^ment meditative et silencieuse," 

 (Pasteur). 



For a brief account of Thuillier by Costantin see "Le Centenaire 

 de 1'Ecole normale," Paris, 1895, pp. 540-543. 



There is in the Normal School a bust and a portrait of Thuillier 

 and a marble tablet which says: "Thuillier, mort pour la science." 



Thuret, Gustave Adolphe (1817-1875). Distinguished French algologist. 

 For a biographic notice and a list of his publications by Ed. Bornet 

 see Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. 6se, Tome II, pp. 308-360. For portrait 

 see Wittrock II, Tafl. 76. 



Tiegel, Ernst (1849 - ). Swiss bacteriologist. Associate of Klebs. 



Toussaint, Jean Joseph Henri (1847-1900). French veterinarian. 

 Professor in the school at Toulouse. Toussaint's report to the Min- 

 ister of Agriculture on anthrax is in "Archives Veterinaires," 1879. 

 See also "C. R. d. s. de 1'Acad. des Sci.," 1880, p. 155. 

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