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 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.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819, author.

Contributor:

American Philosophical Society.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20712.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782. Sketches of the history of man.

Kames, Henry Home.

Anthropology.

Human skin color--Origin.

Human skin color.

Physical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 111 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head, Market Street., M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]

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text file

Notes:

"The substance of the following 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], 1st count.

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Cited in:

Evans 20712

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1776

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