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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, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith ...

Author

Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.

Publication

Edinburgh, Reprinted for C. Elliot; and C. Eliot and T. Kay, London, 1788.

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Additional Authors

• American Philosophical Society.
• Ford Collection.

Description

viii, (1) 10-217 p.; 8vo.

Subjects

• Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782 > Sketches of the history of man
• Skin > Color of
• Human skin color
• Anthropology > Miscellanea
• Monogenism and polygenism

Note

• Delivered in substnce before the Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, February 28, 1787, and the whole published at the request of that society.
• Preface by the editor dated at end: Edinburgh, April, 1778.

Call Number

*KF 1788 (Smith, S. S. Essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species)

LCCN

35030282

OCLC

4735984

Author

Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.

Title

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind. By the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith ...

Imprint

Edinburgh, Reprinted for C. Elliot; and C. Eliot and T. Kay, London, 1788.

Edition

A new ed. With some additional notes, by a gentleman of the University of Edinburgh. Philadelphia, printed.

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American Philosophical Society.

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Research Call Number

*KF 1788 (Smith, S. S. Essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species)