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ten Louis Pasteur made his entry, leaning on 

 the arm of the President of the Republic, while 

 the band of the Republican Guard saluted him 

 with a triumphal march, and the entire assem- 

 blage arose to its feet and acclaimed him with 

 rounds of applause. Pasteur seated himself 

 before a little table on the platform, in order 

 to receive the addresses of the delegates, and 

 the President of the Academy of Sciences, M. 

 d'Abbadie, opened the meeting and gave the 

 floor to M. Charles Dupuy, Minister of Public 

 Instruction. After summing up the works of 

 Pasteur, and extending a greeting to the for- 

 eign delegates, M. Dupuy concluded by point- 

 ing out the significance of the Jubilee: 



"But what characterises this ceremony be- 

 yond all else, what gives your Jubilee its dis- 

 tinctive mark," he said, "is that our homage is 

 extended less to the past than to the future; 

 science, on behalf of which the whole universe 

 is in your debt, has received from you a sure 

 method and a definite principle; but, as you 



