Talk:Popular Science Monthly/Volume 8/March 1876/Modern Philosophical Biology I

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The name Gazelle was a typo in the digitization of the document which I fixed. I found the original French publication in La Revue scientifique, no. 33, February 1867, with the byline M. Cazelles and the title "Les Principes de la Biologie d'après M. Herbert Spencer." Also in the book Leçons sur les phénomènes de la vie commune aux animaux et aux végétaux by Claude Bernard, he identifies the writer of this article as "le traducteur d'Herbert Spencer, M. Cazelles." Unless there were other Ms. Cazelles kicking around France at the time writing academically about and translating Herbert Spencer it seems likely enough that it's Émile-Honoré. — Prosody (talk) 00:30, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

• Prosody, on reflection I agree - the probability of two Cazelles's translating Herbert Spencer is minute. Does d'après mean straight translation or something more derivative? If straight translation, we have the curious situation of an article by Herbert Spencer being translated into French and then back into English! (If you reply, please do so here but please ping me.) — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 12:14, 31 August 2017 (UTC)