The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-29
NJ. PAsTEuR.s CAREER.

NJ. PASTEUR'S CAREER.
Discoveries of the Eminent French
man in Behalf Of Science.
Louis Pasteur was born at Dole Depart
ment of Jura, Dec 81, 1922, entered the
university in 1910. became supernumerary
master of studies at the College of Ben
ancon, was received as pupil in the Ecole
Normale in 1s43, took the degree of doctor
in 1917 and was appointed professor of
physics at the Faculty of Science. Strass-
burg. In 1s4S. At the end of 1854 he was
intrusted as dean with the organization
of the newly created faculty of sciences at
Lille, and in 1857 returned to Paris and un-
dertook the scientific direction of the
Ecole Normale. In December. 1863, he was
appointed professor of geology. physics and
chemistry at the Ecole des Beanx-Arts,
and was elected member Of the institute.
The Royal Society of London awarded NJ.
Pasteur the Rumford medal for his re-
light. etc. He was decorated with the
Legion of Honor Aug. u, 1853, was pro-
NOTED to be an officer of that order in 1863.
and q commander in 1858. In 1869 he was
elected one of the fifty foreign members
of the Royal Society of London.
NJ. Pasteur has written numerous works
relating to chemistry and bacterology.
for which, in 1861. he obtained the ). Ecker
prize. His contributions have appeared in
Receuil des Savants Etrangers and the
Annals de Chimie ct de Physique, and he
published, in 1862 in separate form. a
work entitled ''Neuvel Exemple de Fer
mentaticn Determine Par des Animalcules
T~f
Libre." In 1874 the national Assembly ac-
corded to VI. Pasteur as a reward, chiefly
for his Investigations and fermentation,
life annuity of 1900 francs. He was
raised to the rank of grand officer of the
Legion of Honor Oct "A. 1878. His re-
ception into the French Academy took
place April q, 1882. when he delivered
panegyric on NJ. Littre, to whose chair he
had succeeded. In the same year the coun-
ell Of the Society of Arts awarded the AL
bert medal of the society to M. Pasteur
for his researches in connection with fer
mentation, the preservation of wines and
the propagation of zymotic diseases in
silkworms and domestic animals.
OF late years M. Pasteur has devoted
himself to the study of incubation for dis
eases other than smallpox, and has
achieved some very remarkable results in
the prevention of hydrophoba. Patients
from all parts of Europe and even from
America travelled to Paris to put them
selves under his care. Large subscriptions
were raised in France to form an Institute
Pasteur," where the methods of the great
discoverer could be practiced and taught
On July /, 1882 meeting was convened at
the Mansion House, in London. for the pur-
pose of hearing statements by Sir James
Paget and others ir favor Of establishing a
Pasteur institute in England. The Prince
of Wales contributed 100 guineas toward
that object. A Pasteur institute has also
been established in America under the di-
rection of the pupils of Pasteur for the
purpose of affording relief to Americans
who could spare neither the time nor the
money to make the trip to Europe for the
purpose of placing themselves directly un-
der the great chemist. The cholera epi-
demic Of 1892 led NJ. Pasteur to institute ex-
periments in anti-choleraic vaccinations
which proved successful in the case of ami
mails.
REFUSED A GERMAN HONOR.
On Dec q, 1892. NJ. Pasteur's SEVENTEEN
birthday was enthusiastically celebrated
before a representative official assembly
at the Sarbonne. April q a Murat tablet
was unveiled in his honor at the Ecole
Normale Last May considerable comment
was caused by NJ. Pasteur refusing a dec
grafton rendered him by the German EN-
peror. This declination was generally ap-
plauded by the French papers, but was con-
demned by the German press and some of
the medical and scientific magazines, the
ground being taken that the drawing of ma
tional lines in this manner would have a
tendency TO retsrd the advancement of
science.
A few years ago there was published in
Paris a book called the Biography of a
Learned Man by an Ignorant One" In re-
viewing the book a writer says: 1t is a
careful and conscientious study of the re-
nowned Academician who made such vast
discoveries in the world of the Infinitely
little" Accounts of the life and researches
of NJ. Pasteur are not lacking, but here
we have one which comes directly from the
pen of an observer who has shared the en-
inent scientists household. who is, in fact.
his son-in-law, and who is one of the as
| sistants in his laboratory. From the earliest
moment of Pasteur's scientific triumphs
| until the present time this faithful chron-
| icler has been at hand TO note down the
profound sayings, and to watch Pasteur
! as he watched. 1t will never cease pro-
foundly to interest the public to know how
| men OF genius work; whether they are
| OF the lightning. luminous, favored sort
who see into all things just as soon as they
| choose TO look at them: or whether they
get at their results by slow gradations OF
| toll. The life OF Ialissy. the potter. wot Id
| not have been half 30 attractive an OBJ
ject Of study for us had We not known Of