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confusion of doctrines immovable ideas and true laws 
as to render chemistry an exact science, for it lies now 
on mathematical truth.” 
Cannizzaro replied to the congratulations in an in- 
teresting speech, which we hope to refer to more fully in 
a future issue. In the course of his remarks he referred to 
the confusion and uncertainty which dominated chemistry 
between 1850-51 on the criterions for determining atomic 
weights and on the value of formula, giving an account 
of the attempts made by others and himself to reduce 
cheinical notation to law and order. 
He afterwards referred to the subject of the division 
of pure science from teaching. He cited De Candolle’s 
book, “Histoire des Sciences et de Savants,” to the 
effect that the two functions of teaching and contributing 
to the science progress are to be separated. De Candolle 
hoped for the time when academies would be formed by 
free investigators. Cannizzaro is of contrary opinion, 
and dwelt upon the utility of teaching. He said: “Had 
I not been a teacher, my publications would not have 
appeared, and I should have continued to disseminate 
science of new carbonium compounds. I bring here 
Lord Kelvin’s example, who, in his last jubilee, spoke 
of the utility he had found by the continued conferences 
with his scholars.” 
In speaking upon chemical laboratories, Cannizzaro 
expressed the opinion that the Director ought to dwell 
in the same building where the laboratories are situated. 
He thinks the German type of laboratory the best of all ; 
for he said : ‘“‘ The chief must be considered in a scientific 
institute as the first, and more useful instrument.” 
Cannizzaro concluded by referring to the large sum 
obtained by subscription on occasion of his jubilee, and 
devoting the remainder of it to the extension of the 
Roman laboratories. 
The celebration was concluded amid great enthusiasm 
and prolonged applause. A; MIOLATI. 
THE FINAL ENTOMBMENT OF PASTEUR. 
HE remains of Pasteur, which for nearly fifteen 
months have been lying at Notre Dame, were on 
Saturday, Dec. 26, borne in solemn procession to their 
last resting-place at the Pasteur Institute, where a crypt 
worthy to hold the ashes of that great benefactor of the 
human race has been constructed. The subjoined report, 
slightly abridged from the Z7es, shows that the cere- 
mony of the final entombment was an impressive one, 
and that representatives of British science were among 
those who, by their presence and their words, testified 
to the high regard in which the name of Pasteur is held. 
As at the original funeral, there were present a number of 
eminent men of science and thinkers, both French and foreign, 
and the ceremony derived additional grandeur from the gathering 
which witnessed the final interment. The man whose ashes lie 
in this tomb erected by filial piety and universal admiration is 
depicted in a sentence from his reception speech at the Academy 
which the architect has inscribed on the stone: ‘‘ Heureux celui 
qui porte en soi un dieu, un idéal de beauté, et qui lui obéit— 
idéal de l'art, idéal de la science, idéal de la patrie, idéal des 
vertus de l’évangile.” The English deputation included Sir 
Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society, Sir Dyce Duck-' 
worth, Sir John Evans, and Sir William. Priestley. Dr. 
Metchnikoff represented Russia, and Dr. van Hoorn Holland. 
M. Meéline and M. Rambaud represented the Government, and 
M. Brisson, a number of ex-Ministers, Senators and Deputies, 
many members of the Institute and the Prefects of Police and of 
the Seine were among those present. 
There was, first of all, a service at Notre Dame, attended by 
the family and the staff of the Pasteur Institute, who then, with 
the archpriest, followed the hearse to the Institute. A crowd had 
collected outside, and amid an impressive silence every head was 
bared as the coffin was carried up the steps through the grand 
vestibule and down to the crypt, which was decorated by the 
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institutions. The parish priest pronounced the last prayers as 
the coffin was deposited in its last resting-place in the presence 
of the family. They then remounted the steps to the entrance 
of the crypt, where all the spectators were stationed, and M. 
J. B. Pasteur, addressing the Council of the Institute, said : 
**T entrust to you this tomb which we have raised to our father 
in this Institute which he loved so dearly. We beg you to 
preserve it carefully.” M. Bertrand, President of the Council, 
thanked the family for their pious idea, thanks to which, he said, 
the pilgrims who would come from all parts of the world to 
honour the memory of the great benefactor of mankind would 
be able to meditate by his tomb. M. Rambaud, Minister of 
Education, next delivered a warm eulogium. ‘‘ As those tombs 
of saints,” he said, ‘on which people saw prodigies accom- 
plished, that of Pasteur will be encircled by a halo of miracles. 
At every discovery beneficial to mankind, at every ray of 
scientific glory which will be added to the aureole of France, 
the gratitude of the country and of the universe will flow to this 
building, henceforth august in the annals of science, as to the 
source of all ulterior progress.” MM. Baudin, President of the 
Municipality, was the next speaker, and an address by M. 
Legouve, the father of the French Academy, was read by M. 
Gaston Boissier. 
Sir Joseph Lister then said: ‘‘ Je suis chargé de représenter 
la Societe Royale de Londres, le Collége Royal des Chirurgiens 
d’Angleterre et la Société Médico-Chirurgicale de Londres. 
Aussi j’ai fait déposer, de la part de I’ Institut Britannique de la 
Medecine Préventive, fille de l'Institut Pasteur, une couronne 
ici. Il y a quatre ans, a Voccasion du jubilé de Monsieur 
Pasteur, j’ai eu le supreme honneur de lui présenter, au nom de 
la’Medecine et de la Chirurgie du monde entier, Phommage de 
leur reconnaissance. Aujourd’hui j’assiste a ses funérailles ! 
Cette cérémonie est noble et imposante, digne de la mémoire de 
notre vénéré maitre. Mais elle nous remplit d’une profonde 
tristesse, puisqu’elle nous rappelle que cette grande lumiére de 
la science, si ardente et si claire, est éteinte ; que ce caractere, 
si noble et si aimable, a disparu de notre monde.” 
Sir Dyce Duckworth spoke as follows: ‘‘ Au nom du Col- 
lége Royal des Médecins de Londres, j’ai l’honneur de témoigner 
la vive sympathie avec laquelle les médecins d’Angleterre 
s’associent a cette touchante cérémonie. Je porte ’hommage 
de nos confreres a ce grand génie créateur, a ce noble caractére 
de Louis Pasteur. Pour nous il est un des prophetes de la 
science, il en est un des avant-coureurs les plus éclairés et les 
plus intrépides. Vénérons ensemble ce bienfaiteur de humanité ! 
Vénérons ce Chrétien loyal et convaincu, dont Ia foi a résisté a 
toutes les influences matérialisantes de ses études! Que l’ceuvre 
de Pasteur, dont les cendres reposeront desormais dans ce sol 
consacré par son travail, reste une des gloires impérissables de 
la France et du monde !” 
Sir W. Priestley said the two Scottish Universities of Edin- 
burgh and St. Andrews appointed him as their representative, 
in token of respéct for the memory of one who had done so 
much to advance the interests of science, and who had conferred 
such signal benefits on mankind. He remarked that Pasteur 
not only made great discoveries himself—discoveries which had 
conferred priceless benefits on man and on the lower animals— 
but he opened up new and hitherto unexplored paths in the field 
of science, the horizon of which was almost unlimited. 
M. Cornu, for the Academy of Sciences, M. Bergeron, for 
the Academy of Medicine, M. Perrot, for the Normal School, 
M. Louis Passy, for the Agricultural Society, M. Tissier, for 
the medical students, and M. Duclaux, director of the Pasteur 
Institute, also spoke. A feeling of restrained emotion pre- 
vailed during the entire ceremony, at the conclusion of which 
the spectators passed respectfully before the tomb and greeted 
the widow and family of the illustrious investigator. 
NOTES. 
WE deeply regret to have to record the death of Prof. Emil 
Du Bois-Reymond, the eminent professor of physiology in the 
University of Berlin. Before his burial in the French cemetery 
in Berlin, on Tuesday, addresses were delivered in the Physi- 
ological Institute, of which Du Bois-Reymond was the founder. 
The Emperor and the Empress Frederick have telegraphed 
expressions of condolence to the widow and relatives of the 
deceased. ; 
