MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 2S 



Reaumur, Buffon, and Jussieu, no lees 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, 

 Baale, Strasburg, Manheim, and Bonn, where many 

 interesting objects invited his regard. At Baale, he 

 met the great Bernoulli, 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, he pronounced a solemn inaugural 

 discourse, choosing for his subject De Mundo Op- 

 timo on a better world. At the same time, he 

 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Lon- 

 don. 



His proximity to England, and still more the 

 great public establishments which there abound, to- 

 gether with the advantage which he had derived 

 from the intercourse with the learned men he had 



