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Resources and Statistics of Nations “Under the above title,” said the Times on December 17, 1834, “the first part of a work which promises to be a very useful one has just made its appearance. It is the undertaking of John M'Gregor Esq. F.S.S. … This new work on statistics confines itself to facts, and presents to its readers a collection of tables of the physical aspect, area, civil and natural divisions of countries, population, produce of mines, of agriculture, of forests, etc.; of manu factories and fisheries etc.; military and naval forces, seaports, colonies, roads, bridges, canals and, in short, of everything connected with the science of political economy, of every nation on the globe; which tables are the result of much personal observa tion and of the most authentic public and private documents which are furnished by the Governments of the different countries, and by the most accurate writers by whom the science has been illustrated. … The work which is about to be translated into the French and German languages … is at once concise, perspicuous and comprehensible.”
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 134, 945–946 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134945b0
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