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BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 



The latter point is of interest, as antedating the condiisions 

 of Cuvicr regarding the nature of fossil bones. Camper also 

 made observations u])on the facial angle as an index of in- 

 telliorence in the different races of mankind, and in lower 



Fig. 38. — Camper, 1722-1789. 



animals. He studied the anatomy of the elephant, the whale, 

 the orang, etc. 



John Hunter (1728-1793), the gifted Scotchman whose 

 museum in London has been so justly celebrated, was a man 

 of extraordinary originality, who read few books but w^ent 

 directly to nature for his facts; and, although he made errors 

 from which he would have been saved by a wider acquaint- 



