Author: CAMPER, Petrus.- Oratio.- MULDER, Joh.
Title: Oratio de Meritis Petri Camperi in anatomiam comparatam ... accedunt annotationes biographicae et literariae, atque descriptio Musei Camperiani.
Description: Groningen, Theodor Spoormaker, 1808. 4to. In the original decorated paper covers, spine some imperf. [n4 (n1 blank), A - )4]. (VIII (including initial blank), 112 pp.). (Large paper copy.). (Righthand blank margin w. occasional vague watersp.; )2, 3, 4 lower righthand corner a bit soiled, dogeared.). Uncommon Oratio by Johannes Mulder, held on the occasion of his taking up the chair of surgery and anatomy at Groningen [Earlier held by Camper]. Apart from the praise for Camper's work in the field of comparative anatomy [pp. 1 - 40], Mulder includes a vast list of Camper's contributions in the form of articles and studies in an extensive Ánnotationes' [pp. 41 - 84], a so-called bio-bibliography. A further very interesting part of his Oratio is Mulder's description of Camper's famous museum of anatomical, paleontological and zoological specimina [pp. 85 - 112]. On Camper see DSB vol. III, pp. 37 - 38. On Mulder, see Lindeboom, DMB, columns 1379 - 1382.

Keywords: oration orations museums zoology paleontology