MKMOlIl OF CAMPER. 
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tuldi'Iy to tlie Academy of rrawing estahlislied at 
Amsterdam, were I tLere to lecture on the subject. 
The first lectures were delivered in 1770, the sub- 
sequent ones in 1774 and 1778.” 
To this sketch of the metliod in which these in- 
''estigations nere made, we shall now add the most 
summary account of the discoveries themselves ; and 
this we are happy to do in the words of the late emi- 
uent Dr Cogan, who, attracted to the work by its bigh 
celebrity in Holland, and convinced of the truth and 
S'cat utility of the principles advanced, undertook 
'ts translation, and executed it in a manner that has 
'een regarded as a model of such performances. 
^ he translation extends to the size of a handsome 
quarto of 260 pages, divided into two books, and 
Containing nearly a hundred illustrative sketches. 
_ The work is based ujton the discovery of a more 
immediate atid intimate connexion between the 
sciences of human and comparative anatomy, and of 
^ c natural history of animals, with the art of deli- 
iieation, than could have been supposed to exist, 
c first books contain the suhstance of several lec- 
n hich was afterwards revised and carefully 
prepared for publication by Professor Camper him- 
^ • The great object was to sheiv that natural dif. 
cnees might be reduced to rules ; of which the 
^ lection of the facial line forms the fundamental 
^ oma or canon ; and that these directions and inclina- 
tions are always accompanied by correspondent form, 
ize, and position of the other parts of the cranium, 
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