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therefore, warmly welcomed by the assembly of professors of the col- 

 lege and by the section of the academy, by whom he was presented 

 to the minister. But he had first to go through the formalities of 

 naturalization, which was indispensable to a titular professor. 



So Brown-Sequard finally settled in France, and never again re- 

 crossed that ocean which he had traversed so many times. He found 

 among us that regular support that was necessary for the carrying 

 on of his work. He ceased to be distracted between the struggle for 

 existence, which must be the care of every man, and the necessity for 

 searching for the truth, which was his individual predilection. Hitherto 

 he had oscillated between the two without being able to resolve to live 

 with such singleness of purpose as would have freed him both from 

 perplexities and weakness in his business affairs and in his scientific 

 work. He henceforth, for sixteen years, lived happily and tranquilly, 

 at least as much so as his ever active nature would permit. 



His activity did not, indeed, decrease. 



As early as 1875, at the time when he was making his researches 

 upon inhibition, he touched upon a new subject which he was destined 

 to develop more as the time went on; this was the subject of internal 

 secretions and their physiological significance. In 1881 the Academy 

 awarded him the Lac'aze prize; in 1885 the great biennial prize. In 

 1886 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in the sec- 

 tion of medicine. He succeeded Vulpian as he had succeeded Claude 

 Bernard in the College of France. Both had been for a quarter of a 

 century his colleagues in the Society of Biology. They had been pres- 

 idents of that society. Brown-Sequard also became one in his turn, in 

 the place of Paul Bert, who was younger, but who yet died before him. 



He there trained pupils who have since made their mark, and he had for 

 his successor our colleague, d'Arsonval, who served his apprenticeship 

 at the College of France under Claude Bernard and Brown-Sequard, 

 and who took, in his turn, a special flight of his own, giving to his 

 teaching an originality no less striking. So it is that in life we are 

 called to replace successively the friends of our youth and more mature 

 age. We may be counted happy if, during the long course of our 

 existence, our affections have not been chilled or blasted by rivalries, 

 or even by divergencies, at first inappreciable, which gradually sepa- 

 rate characters and interests. 



In 1894 Browu-Sequard lost his third companion, to whom he had 

 been tenderly attached for eighteen years. Although time had calmed 

 the expression of his feelings, formerly so violent, still it had not chilled 

 his heart. This last stroke was too much for him — he could not bear 

 it. "I can work no more," he said, "all is finished." He returned 

 from Nice to Paris in March, and expired on the 1st of April. At the 

 International Congress at Rome, which was in session at that time, our 

 colleague, Bouchard, with tears in his eyes, read to the section of phys- 

 iology the dispatch announcing the death of the illustrious scientist. 



