Quotes:Winchell, Alexander

Zirkoff, Boris

Winchell, Alexander. American geologist, b. at North East, N.Y., Dec. 31, 1824; d. at Ann Arbor, Feb. 19, 1891. Grad, at Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, Conn., 1847. App. prof, of physics and civil engineering, Univ, of Michigan, 1853; and of botany, and geology in 1855. State geologist of Mich., 1859-62. Prof, of geology at Kentucky Univ., 1866-69; director of the Mich. Geol. survey, 1869-71; chancellor of Syracuse Univ., 1873-74. Prof, of geol. and paleont., Univ, of Mich., from 1879 until his death. Works: The Doctrine of Evolution. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874.— Science and Religion, 1877.—Pre-Adamites. Chicago: Griggs & Co., 1880. —*World-Life; or, Comparative Geology. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co., 1883.—Geological Studies, ditto, 1886.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 401