viii LIFE OF ELIE METCHNIKOFF 



enabled us to assist many poor British subjects to 

 visit Paris for the pul^ose of undergoing M. Pasteur's 

 treatment, to make a donation of 30,000 francs to the 

 Pasteur Institute, and to initiate with a sum of 

 £300 the formation of a fund for the purpose of 

 establishing an Institute in London similar in purpose 

 and character to the Institut Pasteur. That initial 

 fund has step by step received generous additions and 

 given us the " Lister Institute " on Chelsea Embank- 

 ment possessed of buildings, site, and capital valued 

 at more than £300,000. 



After 1889 it was rare for a year to pass without 

 my visiting Paris both in spring and summer, and 

 seeing a great deal of MetchnikofE and his friends 

 Roux, Duclaux, Laveran, and the great master of the 

 Pastorians, who died in 1895. MetchnikofE took me 

 to his home and cemented his friendship with me by 

 bringing to me that of his gifted and devoted wife. 



Madame Metchnikoff had when a schoolgirl studied 

 zoology under her future husband at Odessa, and now 

 was able to give serious help in some of his researches. 

 She published some experimental investigation on the 

 sterilisation of the alimentary canal of tadpolea and 

 some other researches, and having a thorough know- 

 ledge of English, which Elie did not possess, she helped 

 him in reading and translating from that language. 

 But her chief talents were in the arts of painting and 

 sculpture, and when they purchased their country 

 house at Sevres, she built a studio in the garden in 

 which to pursue her vocation. 



MetchnikofE on several occasions came to England 



