Letters to Jules Raulin

Letters from Pasteur to Jules Raulin (1836-1896), his first assistant, afterwards Sous-Directeur of Pasteur's Laboratoire de Chimie Physiologique at the Ecole Normale and Professor of Chemistry at Lyons. Included are letters concerning Raulin's studies and his thesis Etudes chimiques sur la végétation (1870); the building of Pasteur's new laboratory; their joint work on the diseases of silkworms; Pasteur's studies of beer and fermentation, with an account of his visit to a London brewery (item 22).

c. 1862-1884

25 items

Purchased from Charavay, Paris, 1932.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).