Quotes:Topinard, Paul

Zirkoff, Boris

Topinard, Paul (1830-1911). French physician and anthropologist, b. at L'Isle-Adam (Seine & Oise), Nov. 4, 1830; d. at Paris, 1911. Spent his youth in the U.S.A.; studied medicine in Paris, practising from 1869 to 1871. He then joined the anthropological laboratory of Broca. From 1872 to 1880, was curator of the museum of the Anthropol. Soc., and assistant director of the anthropol. laboratory at the School of Higher Studies. Became prof. of anthropology, 1876. Works: L'Anthropologie. Paris: C. Reinwald, 1876. 8vo.; Engl. transl., London: Chapman & Hall, 1877 and 1890.—Éléments d'anthropologie générale. Paris: A. Delahaye et É. Lecrosnier, 1885. 8vo.—L'Homme dans la nature, Paris, 1891. 8vo.—Les dernières étapes de la généalogie de l'homme.

478 It is not definitely known to what particular work of this scholar H. P. B. makes reference. Vide p. 34 of the present volume.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, pp. 477-478