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his work, in which he systematised all his pre- 

 vious studies on silk-worms. His former mas- 

 ter, Dumas, had the pleasure of introducing to 

 the Academy of Sciences at a meeting held the 

 llth of April, 1870, and of pronouncing the 

 eulogy on his Studies on the Disease of Silk- 

 worms, a practical and assured Method of com- 

 batting it and preventing its Return. The 

 Academy had spoken, the victory was com- 

 plete. 



Pasteur had been made Senator of the Em- 

 pire by a decree issued the previous July, and 

 he was returning to France, impatient to be- 

 gin new researches, when he learned at Stras- 

 burg, with an inexpressible sinking of the heart, 

 that war had been declared. This meant the 

 postponement of all his projects, of all those re- 

 searches which he wished to undertake for the 

 benefit of humanity. The scientists no longer 

 had the floor! 



