Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — PASTEUR’S BIRTHDAY. [ARTICLE]

PASTEUR’S BIRTHDAY.

lit* Sovcntcith Anniversary Celebrated by Ills Election to the Academy. The scientific and literary world of Paris assembled Tuesday to do honor to one of ttye greatest among them. It was tho seventieth birthday of M. Louis Pasteur, the eminent chemist whose name is .now a household word the world over bocauso of his great achievements in the cause of suffering humanity, and tho occasion was marked by a demonstration ol popular affection such as sow men arc called upon to witnoss. Tho ceremony took place in tho amphitheater of tho Sorbonno, the home of tho celebrated French Academy of Sciences, and was attended by all of tho eminent men of thc nation, M. Pasteur was escorted to the seat of honor by President Carnot. An address was made by tbo I’rosident of the Aradomy, at tbo conclusion of which ho presented M. Pasteur with . tho gold medul cf tho Academy.