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and, although France should not get all the credit of work 

 towards which most European nations have contributed, 

 through representatives of all classes, the grants from the 

 Imperial treasury formed a basis on which to found the now 

 celebrated Pasteur Institute, and to France and Pasteur 

 much of the honour is due. The Pasteur Institute is a 

 building set apart for the study of micro-biology, the most 

 perfect of its kind in the world, and a short account of it 

 cannot fail to prove interesting. For many of the details 

 I have referred to the January number of " Annales de 

 1'Institut Pasteur," 1889, as unfortunately, when I visited 

 the laboratories, the place was not in full working order, 

 but I saw enough to convince me that the spirit which 

 animates the founder of the Institute pervades also those 

 of his disciples who carry on the work he has begun. It 

 covers an area of eleven thousand square metres in the 

 Rue Dutot, and consists of two large blocks running parallel, 

 one behind the other, united by a long corridor which runs 

 from the main entrance in the front, connecting the two 

 buildings, and through to the back, with a number of 

 separate outbuildings scattered over the gardens behind. 

 In the large block facing the street on the right are M. 

 Pasteur's apartments ; on the left his laboratory occupies the 

 basement. In this laboratory he continues his researches, 

 but during the time that patients bitten by mad dogs are 

 being treated he may frequently be found watching with 

 great interest the treatment, and chatting with those who 

 have come to see the place and the method of work. In this 

 block also is collected everything connected with the pre- 

 paration of, and despatch of, the various vaccines rouget de 

 pore (swine fever), anthrax vaccine, etc. On the first floor 

 is a large hall, which serves the double purpose of library 

 and council room. This room is well lighted by four large 

 windows, and is provided with the current scientific litera- 

 ture, both periodicals and books, all of which may be 

 consulted by the workers in the laboratories, who, however, 

 are not allowed to remove them from the room. The storey 

 above this is occupied by the servants and attendants of the 

 institution. The large corridors, four metres and a half 

 broad (nearly five yards), well lighted, run between the 

 corresponding storeys from this block of buildings to the 

 larger one behind, which is entirely devoted to laboratories. 



