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MEMOIH OF CAMPER. 
zig in 1772. It was this same year, that he ob- 
tained the Gold Medal of the Royal Academy of 
Toulouse, for his answer to the question, “ What is 
the best method for Inoculating for the Small-pox ? 
And now, in 1774, this memoir was published, along 
with Critical Observations on Van-Sivieteti’s Com- 
mentaries on Sinall-pox. About this time he also 
received the prize of the Royal Academy of Lyons, 
for a work on the Chronic Diseases of the Lungs. 
To this last Academy, he sent three other commu- 
nications on professional subjects ; and about the 
same time published tiiree pamphlets at Leeuwarden, 
on Suicide, Infanticide, and the Signs of Life or 
Death in Netv-born Infants. Much about the same 
time, he received two Gold Medals from L’Academie 
Royale de Chirnrgerie of Paris, the one for a commu- 
nication On the Effects, good and bad, of Air in 
Surgical Diseases ; and the otlier On the Effects of 
Ointments, SfC. on Wounds. To the Batavian So- 
ciety at Rotterdam, besides a Surgical Essay, he 
transmitted a memoir On the Croaking of the Frog; 
and busied himself during the winter in minutely 
examining a young elephant which had died in the 
Menagerie of the Prince of Orange. He imme- 
diately published a succinct account of this exami- 
nation in one of the Dutch periodicals, and devoted 
a considerable portion of time in succeeding years, 
to the examination of other species of the genus, and 
in perfecting this treatise ; which was ultimately pub- 
lished in French by his son, who himself seems 
