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### Author
Camper, Peter (Petrus) (1722-1789), Dutch naturalist and palaeobiologist at Franeker and Groningen.
**Abbreviated name**: *Camper* \[standard form in IPNI: *Camper*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection GRO|GRO]].
*Ref*.: AKL 1820(2): 115, 1839(1): 45 (library).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 304; BM 1: 305; Bossert p. 64; JW 2: 188, 3: 347-348, 4: 381, 5: 237 (q.v. for many references to Dutch sources); NNBW 1: 550-555; PR 1457; Quenstedt p. 72.
- Anon., Hist. Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris 1789: 45-52. an II.
- Anon., AKL 6(154): 178, 187. 10 Jun 1791 (extract from de Levensschets by A. G. Camper).
- Camper, A. G., Levensschets van Petrus Camper. Leeuwarden/Groningen 1791 (see also AKL 6: 178-180, 187. 1791).
- Camper, A. G., Vicq-d'Azir and Condorcet *in* Oeuvres de P. Camper, tome 1, Paris 1803.
- Anon., AKL 1839(1): 48. (sale of library and portr.)
- Daniels, Het leven en de verdiensten van Petrus Camper. Utrecht 1880, 150 p. (portr., iconogr.)
- Klaauw, Het hooger onderwijs in de zoölogie te Leiden, Leiden 1926.
- Doets, De Heelkunde von Petrus Camper 1722-1789. Leiden 1948.
- Lindeboom et al., Ned. Tijdschr. Geneesk. 83: 2039-2149. 1939.
- Nuyens, \[ed.\] Camper's Travel journals, 1784-1785, Opuscula selecta neerl. Arte medica vol. 15, 1939 (portr., biogr. itin.)
- Rijnberk et. al., Ned. Tijdschr. Geneesk. 83: 2037-2149. 1939 (portr.)
- Kaplan, Bull. Hosp. joint Diseases 17: 371-385. 1956 (portr., bibl.)
- Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 85. 1966.
- Lindeboom, DSB 3: 37-38. 1971 (bibl.)
- Smit, History of the life sciences 892-893. 1974.
### Publications
##### n.962. Oratio de analogia inter animalia et stirpes
**Title**
*Oratio de analogia inter animalia et stirpes*. Habita d. ix maji a. cioiocclxiv cum medicinae theoriae anatomes chirurgiae et botanices professionem in Academia Groningae et Omlandiae solemni ritu auspicaretur. Groningen (apud Haionem Spandaw) 1764. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Oratio analog. anim. stirp.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 9 Mai 1764 (date of oration) p. \[i-v\], 1-56, \[4, poem\]. *Copy*: U.
*Ref*.: PR 1457.