An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species: To which are Added, Animadversions on Certain Remarks Made on the First Edition of this Essay, by Mr. Charles White, in a Series of Discourses Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester in England. Also, Strictures on Lord Kaims' [sic] Discourse on the Original Diversity of Mankind. And an Appendix ... |
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| Title | An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species: To which are Added, Animadversions on Certain Remarks Made on the First Edition of this Essay, by Mr. Charles White, in a Series of Discourses Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of ... Early American medical imprints, 1668-1820 |
| Author | Samuel Stanhope Smith |
| Contributor | American Philosophical Society |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Simpson and Company; [etc., etc.] L. Deare, printer, 1810 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 18 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 411 pages |
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