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MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 
man, and he had besides attained considerable know- 
ledge of Greek and Italian. 
Few men have ever received, during their lives, 
so many honourable marks of distinction. Besides 
those which we have already mentioned, he was 
chosen member of the Scientific Societies of Flush- 
ing, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Toulouse, and Manches- 
ter ; and was Foreign Associate of the Royal So- 
ciety of Medicine of Paris ; and on seven different 
occasions, including those we have named, he car- 
ried off the prize offered for Essays on Special Sub- 
jects, by different leai-ned bodies throughout Eu- 
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Notwithstanding the ample notices we have fur- 
nished of many of his literary labours, the reader 
must understand that we have not presented a full 
list of them all ; nor can we undertake to complete 
it now, as that would tend considerably to lengthen 
this memoir. We must refer generally to the ex- 
cellent sketch of his life by his son, and to his cloge 
by Vicq d’Azyr; as also to Dr Cogan’s translation 
of his work on the Connexion between Anatomy 
and Design'; to the Philosophical Transactions, and 
to the memoirs of the several academies, Dutch, 
French, Prussian, and Russian, in all of which will 
be found numerous papers, which have not been 
published in a separate form. 
