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PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). Autograph letter signed to Monsieur Nicklis, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 25 April 1858, ½ page, 8vo, integral address leaf ('Monsieur Nicklis, Professeur a la Faculti des Sciences Nancy').
Thanking him warmly for sending some crystals [for an experiment]. 'Si je trouve quelque chose qui puisse vous intiresser particulierement je m'empresserai de vous en faire part'.
Pasteur had been appointed Assistant Director of the Ecole Normale in 1857, a post which provided neither a laboratory nor research funds. He created and equipped a small laboratory in an attic there, and in it made some of his most important discoveries including his studies of fermentation.
Thanking him warmly for sending some crystals [for an experiment]. 'Si je trouve quelque chose qui puisse vous intiresser particulierement je m'empresserai de vous en faire part'.
Pasteur had been appointed Assistant Director of the Ecole Normale in 1857, a post which provided neither a laboratory nor research funds. He created and equipped a small laboratory in an attic there, and in it made some of his most important discoveries including his studies of fermentation.
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