Quotes:Flourens, Pierre-Marie-Jean

Zirkoff, Boris

Flourens, Pierre-Marie-Jean. French physiologist; b. at Maureil- han, April 15, 1794; d. at Mongeron, Dec. 6, 1867. Taking M.D. at Montpellier, began physiological research at Paris; chosen by Cuvier, 1828, to deliver course of lectures at the Collège de France; received, 1832, professorship of compar. anatomy at the Museum. At request of Cuvier, was appointed, 1833, permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences. Elected, 1840, in preference to Victor Hugo, to succeed Michaud at the French Academy; created a peer of France, 1846. Drew the attention of the Acad, of Sc. to the anaesthetic effect of Chloroform. Withdrew from all political activities at the revolution of 1848, and in 1855 accepted professorship of natural history at the Coll, de France.

Works: Expériences sur le système nerveux, 1825.—Cours sur la génération, l'ontologie, et l’embryologie. Paris: Trinquart, 1836.—Analyse raisonnée des travaux de G. Cuvier, 1841.—Buffon: histoire de ses travaux et de ses idées. Paris: Paulin, 1844.—Œuvres complètes de Buffon, 1853;—*De la longévité humaine et de la quantité de vie sur le globe. Paris, 1854; 2nd ed., Garnier frères, 1855; 3rd ed., 1856; 4th ed., 1860 (On Human Longevity, etc. Tr. by C. Martel. London, 1855).—Cours de physiologie comparée, 1856.— De la vie et de l’intelligence, 1858.—De la raison, du génie, et de la folie. Paris: Garnier frères, 1861.—*De l’instinct et de l’intelligence des animaux. Résumé des observations de F. Cuvier, 2nd enl. ed. Paris, 1845. 12°.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 371