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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!