MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 



pliant ; On the Head of certain large Stags ; On 

 the Bones of the Mammoth ; On the Wild Boar of 

 Africa ; and On the Kangaroo. 



Camper's journey to England would probably have 

 been the last of his life, had not the serious indispo- 

 sition of one of his sons, who was then at Paris, in- 

 duced him to resort to that capital to administer to 

 his comfort and restoration. On arriving, his fears 

 were most agreeably disappointed ; and he had thus 

 once more the felicity of renewed intercourse with 

 Buffon, Louis, and other friends of his early years. 



After thus shortly ad verting to the principal events 

 of Camper's active life, and reviewing his scientific 

 .abours, we have still to remark, that these occupa- 

 tions, numerous and important as they were, did 

 not preclude him from taking an active part in the 

 political concerns of his country. In 1762, he was 

 returned as Depute des Etats by the province of 

 Friesland ; and in J 776, he appeared as deputy for 

 Idaarderadeel. In 1778, he persuaded the Assem- 

 bly to reject a proposition for the restoration of the 

 maritime dykes of that province, as by much too 

 expensive, if not impossible ; and then, as at various 

 subsequent periods, he published largely on the prin- 

 ciples of the construction and maintenance of these 

 embankments. In 1783, on the recommendation 

 of the Stadtholder, he was nominated a Councillor 

 for the town of Workheim, which created him a 

 member of the Admiralty of Friesland, In 1787, 





