An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species : to which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's [sic] discourse, on the original diversity of mankind / by the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. Vice-president, and professor of moral philosophy in the College of New-Jersey ; and member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.

  • Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.
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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species : to which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's [sic] discourse, on the original diversity of mankind / by the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. Vice-president, and professor of moral philosophy in the College of New-Jersey ; and member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head, Market Street, MDCCLXXXVII [1787]

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4 unnumbered pages, 111 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)

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Evans 20712
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1776
Sabin 84103
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 422
ESTC (RLIN) W31994

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"The substance of the ... essay was delivered in the annual oration, before the Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, February 28th, 1787. - And the whole is published at the request of the Society."- p. [3]
"Strictures on Lord Kaims's [i. e. Kames's] discourse on the original diversity of mankind" (31 p. at end) refutes the theories set forth in the preliminary discourse to his Sketches of the history of man
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Film 633 reel 89 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 89, no. 1776).

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