Excerpt from The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Late Professor at Goettingen and Court Physician to the King of Great Britain: With Memoirs of Him by Marx and Flourens, and an Account of His Anthropological Museum by Professor R. Wagner; And the Inaugural Dissertation of John Hunter, M.D., On the Varieties of Man Blumenbach has related in the little autobiographical frag ment, which has been incorporated by Marx in his memoir, the causes which led to his selection of an anthropological subject as the thesis for his doctoral dissertation. It was delivered in 1775, and reprinted word for word in 1776. A second edition, enlarged by as much as would make about. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.