Letourneau

(Charles Jean Marie), French scientist, b. Auray (Morbihan), 1831. Educated as physician. He wrote in La Pensée Nouvelle , and has published Physiology of the Pa ions , ’68; Biology , ’75, translated into English by W. Maccall; Science and Materialism , ’79; Sociology based on Ethnography , ’80; and the Evolution of Marriage and the Family, ’85. He has also translated Büchner’s Man According to Science , Light and Life and Mental Life of Animals , Haeckel’s History of Creation , Letters of a Traveller in India , and Herzen’s Physiology of the Will .