Mammalia: Deer, Antelopes, Camels, &C (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Reaumur, Buffon, and J assieu, no less celebrated among naturalists. After remaining two months in this capital, he proceeded to Lyons and Geneva. It was during his residence in this latter city, that he was appointed Professor of Medicine and Sur gery at Franeker in Friesland, which induced him. Without delay to return to his native country. In his journey, he passed through Lausanne, Berne, Beale, Strasburg, Manherm, and Bonn, where many interesting objects invited his regard. At Baale. He met the great Bernouilli, and examined the manu scripts of Erasmus, and the paintings of Holbein. The itinerary which he kept of this journey is a cu rious and valuable depository, and contains many useful observations on agriculture and mineralogy, upon the external forms of the mountain ranges, and the fossils and the petrifactions which they contain.

In consequence of severe illness in 1749, Camper was obliged to defer entering upon the duties of his new professorship till the autumn of the following year, when, in conformity with a prevalent custom on these occasions, be pronounced a solemn inaugural discourse, choosing for his subject De Mundo 0p tz'mo - on a better world. At the same time, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Lon don.

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