ABSTRACT
As La Nauze (1949: 98) has pointed out, there were only two Australian economists of the nineteenth century whose writings were widely known outside of their country of adoption. This refers to Hearn’s Plutology (1863) and Syme’s Outlines of an Industrial Science (1876). In the chapters he devoted to an examination of the work of these economists, La Nauze also noted that both books were known to Marshall, who cited them in the pages of his Principles as well as in other work. In the case of Hearn, considerable influence on Marshall has been mentioned (Copland 1935: 19, n5; Mary Paley Marshall 1947: 20) though La Nauze himself regards this as rather exaggerated (1949: 88-90 esp.). La Nauze does not appear to have realised that Marshall owned copies of both Hearn and Syme, now preserved in the Marshall Library, and that, as is so often the case with Marshall’s own books, these books had been extensively annotated. As one would expect, Plutology contains a great many of these annotations. Syme’s Outlines of an Industrial Science is only annotated in the first, methodological part in which Marshall appears to have been especially interested. This note provides a brief commentary on these annotations and in an appendix gives a detailed listing of them.
