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work was mucli retarded in the summer 

 months, partly by the illness of the men, 

 due to the prevalence of malarial fever, and 

 partly by other unforseen obstacles ; but 

 the conditions have improved and the work 

 is now advancing with gratifying rapidity. 

 This work will go on all winter. 



Director Walcott -nail shortlj^ prepare a 

 succint report of the operations of the field 

 season, for the information of the Secretary 

 of the Interior, briefly reviewing the work 

 in all its branches. 



THE ' INSTITUT PASTEUR'. 



The Paris correspondent of The Lancet 

 gives in the issue of October 26 an inter- 

 esting description of the Institut Pasteur, 

 from which we quote the following facts : 



The Institute is the property of a com- 

 pany, but having been recognized by the 

 Government dhitilite publique it is under the 

 control of the State (Home Ofl&ce). The 

 Assemblee is made up of founders; by it 

 the Council is elected, the accounts passed, 

 etc. The revenue is derived fi-om the fol- 

 lowing sources: (a) the interest of 1,200,000 

 fr., balance of the sum of nearly 3,000,000 

 fr., publicly subscribed, about two-thirds of 

 which was absorbed by the acquisition of 

 the land upon which the Institute stands 

 and bjr the building of the said Institute ; 

 (6) a subvention of between 20,000 fr. and 

 30,000 fr. made by the Agricultural De- 

 j)artment for services rendered (' vaccina- 

 tions ' of animals against charbon, glan- 

 ders, etc.); (c) a subvention (sum not men- 

 tioned) of the Ministry of Public Instruc- 

 tion to provide for the salaries of such ofii- 

 cials as belong formerly to the Ecole des 

 Haute Etudes ; (rf) profits derived from the 

 sale of vaccines supplied at a low rate to 

 veterinary surgeons, these profits having 

 been ceded to the Institute by M. Pasteur 

 and by MM. Roux and Chamberland (the 

 revenue from this source reaches about 

 20,000 fr. per annum); and (e) fees paid 



by the bacteriological students of the Insti- 

 tute. 



The anti-diphtheric department, directed 

 by Dr. Ifous under the dual control of the 

 CouncU of the Institute and the Ministry of 

 the Interior, is an annexe of the Institute 

 but has a distinct budget. The headquar- 

 ters of this department are at Garches 

 (where Pasteur died), on a propertj^ ceded 

 to Pasteur by the State. The serum is dis- 

 tributed gratis, according to the demands 

 of the Ministry of the Interior, to the army 

 and to the hospitals and bureaux de bienfais- 

 ance of France and her colonies. The ex- 

 penses are met by the interest of the public 

 subscription (collected by the Figaro) and 

 by a sum voted annuallj^ by Parliament 

 (this year it amounted to 80,000 fr.). The 

 serum is supplied to the public under the 

 provisions of the Pharmacy Law, a small 

 bottle being procurable at every druggist's 

 for 3 fr. Any profit accruing from the sale 

 will be devoted to the improvement of the 

 particular service. The work done at the 

 Institute comprises inoculations and lec- 

 tures delivered by Drs. Eoux and Metch- 

 nikofif, whose pupils are divided into two 

 categories — those who are simplj' listeners 

 and those who come to acquire the tech- 

 nique of bacteriology. There are, more- 

 over, laboratories provided for investigators 

 engaged in original research, the results of 

 whose work are chronicled in the ' Annales 

 de I'Institut Pasteur.' The teaching per- 

 sonnel is as follows : Biological chemistry, 

 M. Duclaux, who is besides professor at the 

 Faculty of Sciences, but who now gives his 

 lectures at the Institute instead of at the 

 Sorbonne, as was the case formerfy. Rabies: 

 Professor Grancher, with the collaboration 

 of Drs. Charrin and Chantemesse. Sani- 

 tarj^ bacteriologj', ' vaccinations ' and prac- 

 tical applications: M. Chamberland. Mor- 

 phological bacteriologjr : Dr. Metchnikoff. 

 Technical bacteriology: Dr. Roux. Fi- 

 nallj'. Professor Nocard, of the Alfort Ve- 



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