The Village in the Outer Isles of Scotland

A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland by Sir Donald Monro (1549). (Published 1774. Reprinted by Eneas Mackay, Stirling, 1934.)

A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (c. 1695) by Martin Martin . (Published 1703. Reprinted by Mackay E. , 1934.)

Statistical Account of Scotland, edited by Sinclair John Sir (1797). Counties of Ross and Inverness.

An Economical History of the Hebrides by Walker John (1808).

General View of the Agriculture of the Hebrides by Macdonald James . (Report to the Board of Agriculture, 1811.)

Report on the State of Education in the Hebrides by Alexander Nicolson. (H.M. Stationery Office, 1866.)

Report into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars of the Highlands and Islands by the Napier Commission. (H.M. Stationery Office, 1884.)

Report on the Social Condition of the People of Lewis in 1901. (H.M. Stationery Office, 1902.)

Report on the Social Condition of the People of Uist in 1903. (H.M. Stationery Office, 1904.)

Scenes in Lewis. Local sketches written by Hebridean school children. (The Celtic Review, January, 1909.)

North Uist by Beveridge Erskine (1911).

Home Industries in the Highlands and Islands by Scott W. R. , (H.M. Stationery Office, 1914.)

Scottish Mothers and Children by Dr. W. Leslie Mackenzie. Chapters XXXII and XXXVII. (Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1917.)

Resettlement in the Highlands, (The Highlands Local Employment Committee, Inverness, 1919.)

Twentieth Century Development in Lewis and Harris. Address by Lord Leverhulme to the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh (1919).

The Human Geography of Lewis by Stevens A. , (Scottish Geographical Magazine, March, 1925.)

Reclamation and Cultivation of Peat Land in Lewis by Ogg W. G. Macleod A. (Scottish Journal of Agriculture, April 1930, 1931 and 1932.)

Social Amenities in the Western Islands of Scotland by W. J. (Sociological Review, January 1932.)

Some Aspects of Life in a Highland Village a Century Ago by Donald Maclean Address to St. Andrew Society, Edinburgh (unpublished.)

Lewis by Geddes A. Dr. , (Scottish Geographical Magazine, July and September 1936.) The Hebrides a Cultural Backwater by Curwen E. Cecil . (Antiquity, September 1938.)

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland. (Scottish Economic Committee Publication, 1938.)

Valuable additional up-to-date information can be obtained on Education, Health, Agriculture and Fisheries from the official Annual Reports and Statistical Tables issued by the Scottish Education Department, the School and County Medical Officers for Ross and Inverness, the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, and the Fishery Board for Scotland.