James Anderson, a Scottish writer on agriculture, political economy, and natural science, born at Hermiston, near Edinburgh, in 1739, died Oet. 15, 1808. At the age of 15, having lost his parents, he assumed the charge of the paternal farm, and he was still very young when he introduced among the farmers of his neighborhood the two-horse plough without wheels. In 1763 he took a lease of 1,300 acres of nearly wild land in Aberdeenshire, and in 1771 contributed to the "Edinburgh Weekly Magazine" a series of essays on planting, which were in 1777 collected and published separately. In 1780 he received from the university of Aberdeen the degree of doctor of laws, and in 1783 removed to Edinburgh. In 1784 he was employed by the government to make a survey of the Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland, with a view to the improvement of the fisheries. In 1791 he established a literary and scientific periodical called the "Bee,11 designed especially for the young. Having removed to the neighborhood of London in 1797. he commenced in April, 1799, a periodical entitled "Recreations in Agriculture,11 which continued until March, 1802, and of which he wrote the most valuable papers.