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 magnificent mausoleum, crypt, or "chapelle funeraire," where now rest the ashes of its great founder, Pasteur. Professor William Stirling has given a graphic description of this mausoleum, and an interesting account of the touching ceremony which took place on December 26th, 1896, when Pasteur's remains were removed from a small chapel in Notre Dame Cathedral, where they had been temporarily placed, and deposited in this, their last resting-place, the family having refused the honours of the Pantheon. "They preferred that he should rest in the institute which bears his name, and which is a tribute to his marvellous genius—an institute erected by the voluntary contributions of his admirers, and where he passed the last years of his life, busy up to the end with his marvellous discoveries, which have revolutionised surgical practice, and conferred incalculable benefits upon the brute creation as well as upon man, and, moreover, which saved some of the most important industries of France from extinction (Stirling). Pasteur's wonderful scientific investigations and attainments, his practical achievements, as well as the beauty, simplicity, and Christian nobility of his character, have been proclaimed by many speakers and writers of the highest eminence, and to-day we gladly endorse the sentiments they have expressed. His name may be fitly linked with that of Harvey; and, as in his case, Pasteur's views and researches were at one time entirely discredited,