ABSTRACT

From Dr Emily Cloyd’s transcripts of undated autographs of Lord Monboddo (1714–99): (a) National Library of Scotland MS A54b p. 62; (b) Monboddo papers in Aberdeen. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was a Scottish judge, philosopher, and eccentric; a pioneer in anthropology; and author of Of the Origin and Progress of Language (1773–6, 1774–92). (a) is apparently a draft for the projected seventh volume of that work.