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MEilOlIl Oli’ CA.MI’EK. 
Other paperH on tim subject were published by him 
front lime to time t tmd we apprehend, that, on the 
most critical investigation, no one can deny to him 
tliat fair fame which he here claims as a discoverer. 
Along with the memoir just alluded to. Camper 
transmitted to the Academie des Sciences other pa- 
pers on natural history. One was on the anato- 
mical structure of the Percari, a peculiar animal of 
the hog family; and another on the structure of the 
Ant-eater (fourmilieij of the Cape of Good Hope, 
the existence of which had previously been doubted 
by llufPon. About the same time, he sent to the 
Society at Haarlem a memoir On the Organ of 
Idearing in the Whale, and another on the Pot- 
poise. 
We have already mentioned, that, when Camper 
removed to Groningen in 1763, to undertake the^ 
duties of Professor in the University, he was shortly 
afterwards appointed to the office of Physician to 
the City. As many may be unacquainted with the 
nature of this appointment, inasmuch as notliing si- 
milar exists in this country, it may be right to re- 
mark, that in several of the continental states, it has 
long been the practice for the general government, 
or the municipal rulers, to select one or more me- 
dical men of eminence, to whom, in all emergencies 
affecting the public health, they are in the habit of 
applying for counsel; and a part of whose duty it 
is to keep a watchful eye on every thing that en- 
dangers or threatens the public safety : they con- 
