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his adversaries, each party being required to re- 

 peat their experiments in the presence of the 

 commissioners chosen. Pouchet, Joly and Mus- 

 set accepted, but on the day appointed for the 

 tests they announced that they had failed, 

 while Pasteur, accompanied by Duclaux, ar- 

 rived bringing his globes and his liquids with 

 him. The experiment was a success, and 

 Baland recorded, in the name of the Commis- 

 sion, the conclusive results, in the Comtes 

 Rendus de I' Academic des Sciences. After a 

 hard campaign of several years Pasteur was at 

 last triumphant. 



This question of spontaneous generation 

 aroused an interest outside of the men of sci- 

 ence. It had called attention to the mysteri- 

 ous world of infinitely little things, and people 

 were eager to gather around the microscope in 

 order to see these redoubtable organisms, the 

 full extent of whose power was as yet unknown. 

 Pasteur had obtained the concession of a suite 

 of five rooms in the Ecole Normale, to be used 

 as a laboratory. Having thus been enabled to 



