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not have made up my mind to give the appear- 

 ance of having asked to be presented to him. 

 But all of a sudden the Prince himself came up 

 to me and said: 



" 'Monsieur Pasteur, allow me to introduce 

 myself to you, and to tell you that I was one of 

 those who applauded you this morning.' And 

 he continued talking to me in the friendliest 



manner." 



Receptions and ceremonies did not make Pas- 

 teur forget his serious work; and in a lecture 

 intended as an answer to Bastian, who main- 

 tained that germs were born from the organism 

 containing them, he described his labours, his 

 methods, his discovery of vaccines, and the way 

 in which he had proved experimentally tha+ 

 germs were parasites. This exposition by Pas- 

 teur, in which he summed up his entire life as 

 a scientist, and all the opportunities which it 

 had opened up to the future of science, was 

 printed in English and sent to all the members 

 of the House of Commons. The greatest Eng- 

 lish scientists, it should be added, Tyndall, 



