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' discourse on the original diversity of mankind : and an appendix

Date:

1810

Author:

Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Call Number:

GN 353 S6 1810 LOCAL

Publisher:

Published by J. Simpson and Co. ; and Brannan and Morford, Philadelphia ; and E. Morford, Willington and Co., Charleston (S.C.)

Physical Description:

411, [1] p. ; 22 cm.

Acquisition Information:

Copy 2 Transfer; US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's Office of Medical History; 2012. DNLM

Custodial History:

Copy 2 NLM copy provenance: ownership inscription on front paste-down endpaper: "Sam Henry Dickson." DNLM

Notes:

"Appendix: Of the natural bravery and fortitude of the American Indians": p. [353]-411. LOCAL

Subjects:

Anthropology Miscellanea, Monogenism and polygenism, Human skin color, Indians, Skin Pigmentation. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012880, Anthropology, Physical. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000885, Continental Population Groups. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D044469, Indians, North American. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007198, Anthropology, Human skin color, Indians, and Monogenism and polygenism

Genres/Forms:

Address. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019484 and Trivia and miscellanea

Names:

White, Charles, 1728-1813, Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782. Sketches of the history of man, Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782. Sketches of the history of man, Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782. Sketches of the history of man, and White, Charles, 1728-1813