The Humming Bird. 17 



Catalogue of Birds, published by the British Museum ; a very- 

 good and valuable work. At the time of his death, he was 

 actively engaged in the preparation of a Monograph of these 

 birds, and he had already a large number of coloured plates 

 representing nearly all the species known. It is to be hoped 

 that his work will not be lost to Science. 



Pasteur died on the 28th of September, 1895. He was 

 born at Dole, in Jura, December 22nd, 1822. At the early 

 age of 18, he was a teacher in the College of Besancon. 

 Then he entered at the Normal School, where he attained 

 successively all his university degrees ; Aggregate of Science 

 in 1846, Doctor in 1847, he was appointed Professor of 

 Physics to the Lycée of Dijon in 1848, Professor of Chemistry 

 in the faculty of Strasburg in 1849, ^"<^ Professor in 1852. 



In 1862, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of 

 Sciences, and the Rumford Medal was awarded to him by the 

 Royal Society of London for his work on the affinities of the 

 polarisation of light with the hyemedry of crystals. Soon 

 after, Pasteur received from the Austrian Ministry of Agri- 

 culture a prize of 10,000 florins for his discovery on the means 

 of struggling with the disease of silk worms. 



Successively he received a prize of 12,000 francs from 

 the Society of Encouragement to Sciences, for the whole of 

 his works on silk worms, wines, vinegars, and beers ; and an 

 annual pension of 12,000 francs was granted to him by the 

 National Assembly. 



But Pasteur will always be still more remembered as a 

 universal benefactor for his magnificent discovery of the virus, 

 curing hydrophobia. When this discovery of his, was made 

 public, it provoked an universal cry of admiration. An inter- 

 national subscription was made, and the money came so 

 readily, that he was soon able to build what is known as 

 Pasteur s Institute, where patients of all nationalities are 

 attended with the utmost care by his clever pupils. 



Many are the Institutes built all over the world on 

 Pasteur's principles, all of them doing good work. 



On the 27th of December, 1892, a very important cere- 

 mony took place in the Sorbonne Ampitheatre of Paris, to 

 celebrate the jubilee of the great scholar. Over 6000 persons 

 were present at that grandiose ceremony, presided by Carnot, 

 the President of the French Republic. 



Praises were then addressed to him, not only by Mr. 

 Dupuy, Minister of Public Instruction, but also by all the 

 Foreign Delegates, who came especially for that purpose, 

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