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MEMOIK OF CAMPEK. 
phaut ; Oil the Head of certain large Stags ; On 
the Bones of the Mammoth ; On the Wild Boar of 
Africa ; and On the Kangaroo. 
Camper’s journey to England would probably have 
been the last of bis life, had not tlie serious indispo- 
sition of one of his sons, who was then at Paris, in- 
duced him to resort to that capital to administer to 
his comfort and restoration. On arriving, his fears 
were most agreeably disappointed ; and he had thus 
once more the felicity of renewed intercourse with 
Buffon, Louis, and other friends of his early years. 
After thus shortly adverting to the principal events 
of Camper’s active life, and reviewing bis scientific 
labours, we have still to remark, that these occupa- 
tions, numerous and important as they were, did 
not preclude him from taking an active part in the 
political concerns of his country. In 1762, he was 
ret\irned as Depute des Eiats by the province of 
Friesland ; and in 1776, he appeared as deputy for 
Idaarderadeel. In 1778, he persuaded the ylissem- 
bly to reject a proposition for the restoration of the 
maritime dykes of that province, as by much too 
expensive, if not impossible ; and then, as at various 
subsequent periods, he published largely on the prin- 
ciples of the construction and maintenance of these 
embankments. In 1783, on the recommendation 
of the Stadtholder, he was nominated a Councillor 
for the town of Workbeim, which created him a 
member of the Admiralty of Friesland, In 1787, 
