Hello HESers, I have a quick question rel. to a fortuitous Googling exercise. In his "Some Neglected British Economists, Pt. 1" (1903, EJ, Vol. 13, p.338), E.R.A. Seligman refers to a 1809 volume entitled "Sketches on Political Economy, illustrative of the interests of Great Britain: intended as a reply to Mr. Mill's pamphlet Commerce Defended, with an exposition of some leading tenets of the Economists", which has some highly proto-marginalist content. The author is anonymous, and Seligman doesn't venture a guess. Has the author of that tract ever been established? The reason I ask is that I stumbled upon a Monthly Review article from February 1813 that reviews a 1811 book called "The History of Aberdeen" written by a certain "Walter Thom, author of Sketches on Political Economy, &c.". Googlebooks happens to have a copy of that book online: http://books.google.com/books?id=_g8vAAAAMAAJ and the attribution is there, although the title remains shortened by &c., so it is not certain it is the same book. If this Walter Thom is indeed the author, has he been identified before? And does anybody know anything about this fellow? Goncalo Fonseca