Quotes:Draper, John William

Zirkoff, Boris

Draper, John William. American scientist and author, b. at St. Helens, May 5, 1811; d. at Hastings, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1882. Educated at Univ, of London and Univ, of Pennsylvania where he attended the Medical School, 1835-36. Elected to medical professorship in New York Univ, where he also taught chemistry for many years. Greatly interested in photo-chemistry, he improved Daguerre’s process and was among the first to take portraits by light. Draper was responsible in great measure for the prominence of New York city as a center of medical education. Chief works: Treatise on Chemistry (1846).—History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1863).—*History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), a work greatly valued by H.P.B.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 502