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== [[Zirkoff, Boris]] ==

'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Laing, Samuel}}'''. British author and railway administrator, b. at Edinburgh, Dec. 10, 1810; d. at Sydenham, Aug. 6, 1897. Educ. at Cambridge. Studied law and entered political life as secretary to Labouchère of the Bureau of Commerce; was given charge of the Department of Railway Construction, and became Director of Railways in France, Belgium and Canada. Financial secretary to the Treasury, 1859, and finance minister in India, 1860-65. Later in life, he wrote on scientific subjects, and on India and China. Works: *''Modern Science and Modern Thought''. London: Chapman & Hall, 1885; New York: The Humboldt Publ. Co., 1889.—''Problems of the Future''. London: Chapman & Hall, 1889.—''Human Origins'', 1892.—*''A Modern Zoroastrian''. London: F. V. White & Co., 1887.

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|author=Boris de Zirkoff
|title=H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings
|detail=vol. 9, p. 441
|link=Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#441
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