MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 
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of the Athensemn, was the first volume of his Dc- 
monstraiioncs Anatomico-Pathological ; hut the lei- 
sure he now enjoyed in his retirement, allowed him 
to devote much more of his time to science, and en- 
abled him, through the press, to supjily to the public, 
some of those stores of information he had been so 
long accumulating. Accordingly, the second vo- 
lume of the work above named, ami which, we may 
remark, was most highly esteemed, for the execution 
both of the pen and the pencil, made its appearance 
in 1762. He also published, in the Dutch lan- 
guage, an interesting memoir on an important sur- 
gical disease frequently occurring in new-born in- 
fants, another upon The Physical Education of Jn- 
.fants, and a third, An Anatomical Description of 
the Organ of Hearing in Fishes. 
Camper’s son claims the entire merit of this dis- 
covery in the anatomy of fishes for his father ; but 
some of our readers will be aware, that of the many 
discoveries in natural history, the priority and ho- 
nour of which have been disputed by contending 
claimants, this is one of the most remarkable. Zoo- 
logists in Germany and Italy, as well as in Franite, 
Holland, and England, have asserted their respective 
pretensions, among whom we shall only name M. 
Geoffrey and the celebrated John Hunter. This is 
not the place to enter into the examination of such 
a. controversy ; and we shall only therefore remark, 
that, unless Mr Hunter can be supposed capable of 
deliberate falsehood, his claim to priority of disco- 
