Œuvres de Pasteur

This the seventh and last volume of Pasteur's collected works contains communications and scientific notes on diverse subjects, reports to the Counseil d'hygiene, articles and notes relative to teaching at the Ecole normale superieure, and lessons in physics and chemistry as applied to art (Pasteur was professor for some time at the Ecole des beaux-arts). At the beginning of the volume are three remarkable letters by Pasteur (1862, 1863, 1867) which show that at that time he realized the larger significance of his researches on fermentation. A good many of the items in this volume, some of special importance, are published for the first time. There is an alphabetical table of the names cited in the seven volumes and a chronologic table of Pasteur's publications. At the end is a valuable detailed analytic and synthetic index of Pasteur's writings, prepared by the editor, Pasteur Vallery-Radot, which facilitates finding what Pasteur