Negroid race, as defined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in Handbuch der Naturgeschichte (1779), peoples of most of Africa, Australia, New Guinea and other Pacific Islands.
However, Platypus had already been shown to be used for the scientific name for a genus of Ambrosia beetles so Blumenbach's scientific name for the genus was used.
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At university he became interested in natural history through the lectures of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Friedrich Tiedemann.
After studying in Leipzig and at the University of Göttingen he visited England in the summer of 1806, carrying a letter of introduction from the naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach to Sir Joseph Banks, who, with the other members of the African Association, accepted his offer in 1809 to launch an expedition to discover the source of the River Niger.
In 1827 he wrote notes to Henri Milne-Edwards's Surgical Anatomy, and published a second edition of Lawrence's translation of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's Comparative Anatomy.