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This token was presented to him on the 25th 

 of January, 1882, and Pasteur had the pleasure 

 of seeing his old teacher, Dumas, heading the 

 delegation, which consisted of Boussingault, 

 Bouley, Jamin, Daubree, Bertin, Tisserand, 

 and Davaine, and of hearing him deliver the 

 presentation speech Dumas, whom as an ob- 

 scure youth he had listened to at the Sorbonne, 

 leaving the lecture room moved to the point of 

 tears. 



The Government did not remain insensible 

 to the enthusiastic movement in recognition of 

 the discoveries of Pasteur. Upon the second re- 

 port by Paul Bert, the French Chambers raised 

 Pasteur's pension to 25,000 francs, in imitation 

 of Germany, which had accorded Jenner 250,000 

 francs in 1802 and 500,000 in 1807 for his vac- 

 cine against small-pox. Paul Bert's report 

 summed up Pasteur's works as follows: 



"They can be classed," he wrote, "in three 

 series; they constitute three great discoveries: 



"The first may be formulated as follows: 



