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
Published by J. Simpson and Co.; [etc., etc.] L. Deare, printer,
Date of Publication
1810.
Physical Description
411 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
"Strictures on Lord Kaims' [i. e. Kames'] discourse on the original diversity of mankind": p. [307]-349.
"Appendix. Of the natural bravery and fortitude of the American Indians": p. [351]-411.
First published in Philadelphia in 1787.
"Remarks on certain strictures made on the first edition of this essay, by Mr. Charles White" (p. [247]-306) was published in London in 1799 under title: An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 43, pt. 1
Notes
"Part of old Philadelphia, a map showing historic buildings & sites from the founding until the early nineteenth century, compiled by Grant Miles Simon": 1 folded map in pocket.
The record of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge, April the seventeenth to April the twentieth, A.D. nineteen hundred and six
6 v. fronts. (v. 1-2, v. 1 col.) pl., ports. 26 cm.
Notes
Vols. 2-6 have also special t.-p.: Calendar of the papers of Banjamin Franklin in the library of the American Philosophical Society. Ed. by I. Minis Hays.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 92, no. 2 (May 5, 1948)
Contents
B. Franklin, printer / William E. Lingelbach--Dr. Franklin negotiates, December 1777 / Gilbert Chinard--Charles Willson Peale's career as a painter / Charles Coleman Sellers--Henry Ernest Muhlenberg / Paul A. W. Wallace--Collecting source material about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon / Thomas D. Cope.
