MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 
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Reaumur, Buffon, and Jussieu, no less celebrated 
among naturalists. After remaining two months in 
this capital, be proceeded to Lyons and Genera. 
It was during bis residence in this latter city, that 
be 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, 
Baaie, Strasburg, Manheim, and Bonn, where many 
interesting objects invited his regard. At Baaie, 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 obligetl to defer entering upon the duties of his 
uew 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 I.on- 
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 
