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Sir John Sinclair, the county surveys and the collection and dissemination of knowledge

Sir John Sinclair, the county surveys and the collection and dissemination of knowledge. Heather Holmes. Sir John Sinclair. General view of the agriculture of ‘ x ’. The Pyramid of Statistical Inquiries. 1. The Code of Agriculture In one volume. 2 The General Report of Scotland

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Sir John Sinclair, the county surveys and the collection and dissemination of knowledge

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  1. Sir John Sinclair, the county surveys and the collection and dissemination of knowledge Heather Holmes

  2. Sir John Sinclair

  3. General view of the agriculture of ‘x’

  4. The Pyramid of Statistical Inquiries 1. The Code of Agriculture In one volume 2 The General Report of Scotland In 3 vols (and 2 appendixes) 3. The county surveys of Great Britain Containing 85 Districts 4. The Statistical Account of Scotland. Containing 938 Parishes

  5. The ‘original’ surveys

  6. Publication of the Scottish surveys

  7. Subject areas in the ‘original’ surveys

  8. The quarto format

  9. The ‘corrected’ or ‘revised’ surveys

  10. Differences in geographical scope of the ‘original’ and the ‘revised’ surveys

  11. Surveyors of both the ‘original’ and ‘reprinted’ surveys

  12. Plan of the ‘revised’ reports

  13. The octavo format

  14. Publication of the ‘original’ surveys

  15. Publication of ‘revised’ surveys (1)

  16. Publication of ‘revised’ surveys (2)

  17. Publication of ‘revised’ Scottish surveys

  18. Price of the revised Scottish surveys -1st edns

  19. Edinburgh, London and Dublin booksellers

  20. Regional and local centres of distributionand sale

  21. Phases in the distribution of the Scottish ‘revised’ surveys

  22. Distribution of the subscribers to the ‘revised’ Peebles survey

  23. Social and occupational groups of subscribers to the ‘revised’ Peebles survey

  24. Thank you!

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