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No. 10. Vienna, 4 March 1904 — 17 Adar 5664. 8th Year.

Emile Laurent.

With deep sorrow I have just received the news that one of the eight members of the Zionist El-Arish Expedition has died. My brother Alexander Marmorek had recommended him for this expedition. In many years of working side by side at the Institut Pasteur in Paris he had come to know Laurent's profound learning and scientific importance, but also his lofty character and, in consequence, his sympathy for all the oppressed and suffering, and therefore for the Jews as well.

Laurent had meanwhile left the Institut Pasteur, having been called as Professor of Botany to the Agricultural College at Gembloux near Brussels, and had already won general scientific recognition, which found expression in his election as a member of various learned societies, and was shown also in his repeated employment by the Belgian Government on practical agronomic missions. Upon a telegraphic summons he came to Dr. Herzl in Paris, and a brief explanation of the purpose of the Zionist mission to the Sinai Peninsula sufficed to interest him most warmly in the cause. Without hesitation he placed his services at our disposal. ...

On the passage from Trieste to Alexandria he attached himself to me with particular closeness, at first no doubt because the other members of the expedition spoke English, a language he did not command. I thus had occasion to learn to esteem and love the man, and we became friends. I found in him an understanding of our aspirations and our movement such as we could wish for in many Jews. It appeared to him so natural and so noble that he could not comprehend how a Jew should fail to join it, and how a right-thinking, humane non-Jew should not

Emile Laurent during the El-Arish Expedition.