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.

BY SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH, D.D. L.L.D.
President of the College of New-Jersey; and Member
of the American Philosophical Society.

THE SECOND EDITION....ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

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Dedication.

To the American Philosophical Society held in Phi ladelphia, for promoting Useful Knowledge.

Gentlemen,

THE substance of the following Essay was, in consequence of a duty devolved by you upon the Author, pronounced in the form of an oration, before your very respectable body on the 37th of February in the year 1787. As you were pleased to express your satisfaction with it, and it has been received with a considerable portion of public favour both in America and Europe, I have been encouraged, in the midst of my other numerous and indispensable avocations, to turn my attention lately to enlarge and improve it. It comes, therefore, in its new form, to pay its homage to you to whom it owes its existence; and, if it should again be found worthy of your approbation, to solicit your patronage.

I am, Gentlemen, with the profoundest respect for you individually, and as a society devoted to promote the interests of Philosophical Science in this new world,

Your most obedient,

and most humble servant,

SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH.