Quotes:Figuier, Guillaume-Louis

Zirkoff, Boris

Figuier, Guillaume-Louis. French writer and scientist, b. at Monpellier, 1819; d. at Paris, 1894. Became an M.D., 1841; Prof, at Montpellier’s College of Pharmacy, 1846, and later at Paris. Opposed the ideas of Claude Bernard, but failed to prove his point. Wrote a large number of popular books on science, among them: l'Alchimie et les alchimistes (1854); Les Grandes Inventions anciennes et modernes (1861); Histoire du merveilleux dans les temps modernes (Paris, 1860), which H.P.B. approvingly quotes from in Isis Unveiled; La Terre et les mers (1863); *Le Lendemain de la mort, ou la vie future selon la science, Paris, 1871, pp. xi, 449; this work went through eleven impressions and was translated into English as The Day After Death, etc. (London, 1872).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 509