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we have only to glance at the Annates of the Institute, to see 

 how amply it has since justified the great hopes with which its 

 inauguration was accompanied. 



If Pasteur's life was darkened by struggles, it was equally illumi- 

 nated with brilliant victories, which he not only prized on account 

 of the vindication of the truths for which he fought, and for the love 

 of science, but also for the lustre which they shed upon his beloved 

 country. 



" Si la science n'a pas de patrie," has said Pasteur, " l'homme 

 de science doit en avoir une, et c'est a elle qu'il doit reporter Fin- 

 fluence que ses travaux peuvent avoir dans le monde." It was in 

 this sense that Pasteur participated with such profound feelings of 

 emotion and gratitude in the magnificent celebration of his jubilee 

 which took place on December 27, 1892, in commemoration of 

 his seventieth birthday. Dr. Roux has told us how this unique 

 ceremonial, in which nations forgot politics and joined together 

 to honour and gratefully acknowledge the monumental labours 

 of one of the greatest men of science of the century, profoundly 

 moved Pasteur. " Puis Pasteur ne vecut plus que par l'amour 

 des siens ; il fallait les soins et toute l'affection dont il etait 

 entoure pour prolonger sa faiblesse." It was in the autumn of 

 1895 that the news of Pasteur's grave state of health gave cause for 

 universal anxiety, and on the 28th of September he passed away at 

 Villeneuve-l'Etang, near Garches. A mausoleum erected by the 

 Pasteur family in the Institut Pasteur aifords a last resting place to 

 the mortal remains of him who 



" Defender of the living, now shall keep 

 His slumber in the arsenal of life." 



Pasteur has left behind him nearly two hundred notes and me- 

 moirs inserted in the ' Annales de Chimie et de Physique/ in the 

 1 Comptes Rendus,' in the " Recueil des Savants Etrangers," &c, 

 besides several works published separately. 



The honours which were showered upon him by numerous foreign 

 public and scientific bodies, besides those bestowed upon him by his 

 own country, are too many for record here ; mention should, however, 

 be made that the Royal Society, which had awarded him the Rum- 

 ford Medal in 1856, conferred upon him the Copley Medal in 

 1874, and in 1869 elected him a Foreign Member of the Society. 



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