The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Late Professor at Göttingen and Court Physician to the King of Great Britain: With ... Museum by Professor R. Wagner; And - Softcover

Excerpt from The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Late Professor at Göttingen and Court Physician to the King of Great Britain: With Memoirs of Him by Marx and Flourens, and an Account of His Anthropological Museum by Professor R. Wagner; And the Inaugural Dissertation of John Hunter, M.D., On the Varieties of Man

Blumenbach has related in the little autobiographical frag ment, which has been incorporated by Marx in his memoir, the causes which led to his selection of an anthropological subject as the thesis for his doctoral dissertation. It was delivered in 1775, and reprinted word for word in 1776. A second edition, enlarged by as much as would make about.

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