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the purpose of founding an establishment for 

 vaccination and for scientific studies, under the 

 title of the Pasteur Institute. Within a few 

 months the modest mites of the poor and the 

 bank notes of the rich and generous formed .a 

 sum amounting to 2,586,680 francs (approxi- 

 mately $517,336.00), and the Institute build- 

 ings, slowly constructed, were inaugurated by 

 the President of the Republic, Sadi-Carnot, on 

 the 14th of November, 1888. The ceremony 

 took place in the library hall before a gathering 

 including delegations from learned societies, 

 cabinet ministers, members of the Committee 

 of the Institute, presided over by Joseph Ber- 

 trand, prominent statesmen and former gov- 

 ernment officials. Doctor Grancher, treasurer 

 of the Committee, who had been one of the first 

 to recognise the value of the method of vacci- 

 nating against hydrophobia, celebrated the dis- 

 coveries of the illustrious scientist, now so 

 nearly vanquished in life's struggle. 



"You know," he said to his eminent hearers, 

 "that M. Pasteur is an innovator, that his ere- 



