THE 1. 1 IK OF PASTEUB 



I-i!y and France, and Pasteur represented Ti . He was 



aco.nifKiin.il by his former pupils, his associates in his silk- 

 I "uchux and Ranlin, both of whom had become 

 professors at the Lyons Faculty of Sciences, and Maillet, who 

 was then manager of the silkworm stablishment of Mont- 

 pellier The members of the Congress had been previously 

 informed of the pr. >_ramme of questions, and each intending 

 speaker was armed with facts and observations. The open 

 dis ms allowed Duclaux, Kaulin and Maillot to demon- 



strate the strictness and perfection of the experimental method 

 which they had learned from their master and which they were 

 teaching in their turn. 



is formed a delightful interlude ; one on the lake of 

 Como was an enchantment. Then the French dt il _ I s were 

 offered the pleasant surprise of a visit to an immense seeding 

 establishment in the nei^hhourhood of Milan, which had been 

 named after Pasteur. We have an account of this visit in a 

 bter to J. B. Dumas (September 17) . 



' M\ Master ... I very much regret that you are not 



here : you would have shared my satisfaction. I am dating 

 my letter from Milan, but in reality, the congress being ended, 

 we are staying at Signor Susani's country house for a few days, 

 ii re, from .Inly 4, sixty or seventy women are busy for ten 

 hours every day with microscopic examinations of absolute 



iracy. I never saw a better arranged establishment. 



,000 moth cells are put under the microscope everj day. 

 The order and cleanliness are admirable; any error is made 

 impossible by the organization of a second test following t 

 first. 



' I felt, in seeing my name in large letters on the facade of 



thai Bplendid establishment, a joy which compe; for much 



of the frivolous opposition I have encountered from some of 



countrymen these last few years; it is a spontaneous 



boi ■ .mi the proprietor i studies. Many sericicultors 



do their seeding themselves, by selection, or have it done by 

 ipetenl work, rs accustomed to the operation. The harvest 

 from thai lent seed depends on the climate only; in a 



kVOUrable season the production often reaches fifty 

 or seventy kilogrammes per ounce of twenty-five grammes." 



Signer Busani was looking forward to producing for that one 

 j r 80,000 ounces of s.ed. In the presence of the prodigious 

 activity of this ▼eril I where, besides the microscope 



