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JAMES ANDERSON (1739-1808)

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JAMES
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ANDERSON (1739-1808)  , Scottish agriculturist and economist, was
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born at Hermiston, near
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Edinburgh, in 1739 . While still a boy he undertook the working of a
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farm in
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Mid-
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Lothian which his
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family had occupied for several generations, and later he rented in
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Aberdeenshire a farm of 1300 acres of unimproved
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land . In 1783 he settled in Edinburgh, where in 1791 he projected a weekly publication called The
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Bee, which was largely written by himself, and of which eighteen volumes were published . In 1797 he began to reside at Isleworth, and from 1799 to 1802 he produced a monthly publication, Recreations in
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Agriculture, Natural
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History, Arts and
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Miscellaneous 'Literature . He was also the author of many
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pamphlets on agricultural and economical topics . He died on the 15th of
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October 1868 .

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