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versally felt, and which the Pasteur Institute 

 has just sustained in the person of its gifted 

 founder, the Berlin Institute of Infectious Dis- 

 eases expresses its heartfelt participation in the 

 general sorrow." 



The Government decided that the obsequies 

 of Louis Pasteur should be national and that 

 the State should bear the expense. They were 

 conducted with full official pomp and before 

 an immense public gathering, on October 5th, 

 1895. The religious ceremony, presided over by 

 Monseigneur Richard, was conducted at Notre- 

 Dame, in the presence of the President of the 

 Republic, Felix Faure, the Grand Duke Con- 

 stantine of Russia, and Prince Nicholas of 

 Greece. At its conclusion M. Poincare deliv- 

 ered an admirable address in the name of the 

 Government beside the bier, where it rested 

 before the threshold of Notre Dame. 



"Science," he said, "will never weary, Mes- 

 sieurs, of admiring in the genius of Pasteur the 

 combined force of a creative imagination and 

 the most rigorous experimental method. 



