782 PASTEUK. 



so successfully, there must have been associated a kindly disposition, 

 for those who were closely associated with him in his laboratory work 

 were devotedly attached to him. He evidently had the faculty of 

 inspiring others with his enthusiasm for science, and their loyalty to 

 him and to their common mistress was rewarded by the frank acknowl- 

 edgment on his part of their share in the work accomplished. So far 

 as I am aware, he never showed any disposition to appropriate for him- 

 self credit due to another, whether that other was an associate or pupil 

 in his own laboratory, or one who was prosecuting his investigations 

 elsewhere. The speaker's personal acquaintance with Pasteur is limited 

 to a memorable half day spent in his laboratory about ten years ago. 

 Although still disabled to some extent by paralysis, resulting from his 

 first apoplectic attack, he conducted me through his laboratory and 

 with the greatest kindness explained to me the methods in use and the 

 results recently accomplished in the lines of experimental work which 

 at that time occupied the attention of himself and his colleagues. 



The time at my disposal will permit only a brief review of the life 

 and work of this illustrious savant; but this review will show that his 

 scientific achievements are of the highest order, and that the practical 

 benefits resulting from his labors have extended to all parts of the civ- 

 ilized world. He belongs not alone to France, but to science, and it is 

 eminently fitting that we should pay a tribute to his memory in this 

 capital city of a country in which his name is so well known and in 

 which the results of his scientific investigations are so highly appre- 

 ciated. 



Louis Pasteur was born at Dole, a small town in the Department of 

 Jura, France, on the 27th of December, 1822; he died at his home in 

 Garches, a suburb of Paris, on the 28th of September, 1895. 



Pasteur's father had been a soldier in the army of Napoleon, but at 

 the time of his famous son's birth was working at his trade as a tanner. 

 In 1825 the family moved to Arbois, a small town in the same depart- 

 ment, and here Louis Pasteur attended school at the college communal. 

 Later he was sent to the college at Besancon, where he took his degree 

 of Bachelier des Lettres. He subsequently entered the Ecole Normale 

 of Paris, and while there devoted himself to his favorite study — chem- 

 istry. Three years after joining the IilcoJe Normale he was appointed 

 assistant professor of physical science. In 1848 he was appointed pro- 

 fessor of physics at Dijon, and after a few months resigned his posi- 

 tion for the chair of chemistry in the University of Strasburg. In 1854 

 Pasteur was induced to accept the position of dean of the newly created 

 Faculty of Sciences at Lille, and in 1857 he returned to Paris as scien- 

 tific director of the Illcole Normale, where he had gained his first 

 scientific laurels. In 1862 Pasteur became a member of the Institute, 

 and in the same year he was appointed professor of geology, physics, and 

 chemistry in the Itcole des Beaux Arts. He was elected to the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, taking the Fauteuil of Littre, in 1881. The same year 





