Decembee 6, 1895.] 



SGIENGE. 



im, 



from speculators, saying that he was paid 

 by the French government and that all 

 his discoveries belonged to the public. As 

 Huxley says : " The discoveries of Pasteur 

 are sufficient alone, to have repaid all the 

 tribute of war of five milliards of francs 

 paid by France to Germany." 



In our time, when money seems to be 

 everything, and when we have the dis- 

 couraging spectacle of competitions to get 

 at great fortunes by all means, it is a great 

 example to see a man refusing to be tempted 

 and perfectly satisfied with a modest pen- 

 sion of 12,000 francs yearly, soon raised to 

 25,000 francs during his life, to be con- 

 tinued to his widow and afterwards equally 

 divided between his two children. To be sure 

 the honor is unique. His public funeral, 

 also at the national expense, attended by 

 the President of the French Eepublic, and 

 followed by the mass of the population, 

 without regard to parties, is another noble 

 manifestation, unmixed with any discord- 

 ant notes, from the humblest citizen, and 

 even children, to his highest surviving con- 

 temporaries. 



One more word, Pasteur's last creation 

 was his Institut, rue Dutot, built by private 

 subscriptions and sustained by rents from a 

 yet too small capital, increased happily 

 yearly by annual appropriations from the 

 French budget. There the new roads he 

 opened to science will continue to attract 

 the attention of the scientific world, and 

 discoveries will go on under his direction 

 and methods. Pasteur was verj' anxious 

 to place it on a sure and somewhat inde- 

 pendent basis, and in the last letter he wrote 

 me with his own hand, when already 

 stricken with the ailment which terminated 

 his life, he says : 



" Institut Pasteue, 

 Paris, le 14 d^cembre, 1887. 

 MoN Cher Marcott: 



Je suis heureux des bonnes nouvelles 

 que tu me donnes de ta sant6. La mienne 



a ete eprouvee dans ces derniers temps par 

 une congestion qui m'a rendu la parole un 

 pen difficile. Quoiqu'il en soit je suis, de- 

 puis quelques semaines, une hygiene de 

 repos et de calme qui me reussit assez bien. 



Tout va bien an laboratoire et 1' Institut 

 Pasteur, est presque termine, moins 1' 

 amenagement interieur. L' inauguration 

 cependant n 'aura lieu qu' a la fin de 1' ^te 

 prochain et nous n'en prendrons possession 

 qu'en ISTovembre, 1888. Ce sera grand et 

 confortable et de bel aspect. La souscription 

 a depasse deux millions. Avec le legs re- 

 cent de Madame Boucicaut (du Bon Marche) 

 et un autre legs d'un negociant de Lj^on, 

 elle depassera deux millions deux cent mille 

 francs. Les constructions et I'achat du 

 terrain atteindront douze cent mille francs 

 et plus. 



Nous avons done besoin d'accroitre en- 

 core beaucoup notre capital. J'ai con- 

 fiance en de nouveaux legs. 



Ah ! si nous etions en Amerique, le pays 

 aux genereuses et grandes initiatives ! 



Deja nous rendons mille actions de graces 

 a la tres digne Madame Boucicaut qui n 'a 

 pas contribue a la souscription pour moins 

 de deux cent cinquante mille francs. 



Je m' arrete. Ecrire me fatigue encore 

 par 1' obligation de courber la tete. 



Tons les aflfectueux souvenirs de Mme 

 Pasteur et de moi, a Mme Marcou et a Mon- 

 sieur Philippe, a toi mille bonnes amities. 

 L. Pasteur." 

 Jules Marcou. 



Cambridge, Mass, 14th November, 1895. 



HOLBBOOK CU8HMAN. 

 HoLBEooK CusHMAN was boru in ISTew 

 York City, in 1857, and was there prepared 

 for college, entering Columbia in 1874. He 

 was graduated with honors in 1878, receiv- 

 ing the ' Fellowship in Science. ' From 

 Columbia he went to the University at 

 Wiirzbui'g, Bavaria, studying physics with 

 Kohlrausch, mathematics with Prym and 



