ANDERSON, ADAM, was born in Scotland in 1692. He was a clerk for forty years in the South Sea House in London, where he published a large work entitled Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, containing a History of the Great Commercial Interests of the British Empire, &c., which is voluminous and heavy; but he seems to have anticipated in some of his speculations the opinions of later times. It was first published in 1762, in two vols. fol. A third edition appeared in 1797-9, in four vols. 4to, the last volume being an appendix and continuation by the editor, Mr. Walton. Anderson died in 1765.