Author:James Anderson (1739-1808)

James Anderson
(1739–1808)

James Anderson

Works

• "Essays on Planting" in Ruddiman's Edinburgh Weekly Magazine (1771)
• Essays relating to agriculture and rural affairs (1777), in 2 vols. (external scan)
• Miscellaneous observations on planting and training timber-trees: particularly calculated for the climate of Scotland (1777) (external scan)
• A practical treatise on chimneys: containing full directions for preventing or removing smoke in houses (1777) (anon.) (external scan)
• Observations on the Means of exciting a Spirit of National Industry (1777) (external scan)
• The interest of Great Britain with regard to her American colonies, considered (1783)
• An Account of the present State of the Hebrides (1785)
• Observations on Slavery (1789)
• A General View of the Agriculture and Rural Economy of the County of Aberdeen (1794)
• The Bee, or literary weekly intelligencer (December 1790 to January 1794, 163 issues), in 18 vols. (external scan)
• On an Universal Character (1795)
• Recreations in agriculture, natural-history, arts, and miscellaneous literature (1799), in 5 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• A Calm Investigation of Circumstances that have led to the Present Scarcity of Grain in Britain, 1801 (external scan)

Works about Anderson

• "Anderson, James (1739-1808)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Anderson, James, of Hermiston," in A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, (ed.) by Thomas Thomson, Glasgow: Blackie and Son (1857, 2nd edition) in 9 vols.
• "Anderson, James (Agriculturist)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)