ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796), Scottish natural philo sopher, born at Roseneath, Dumbartonshire, was a professor of natural philosophy in the University of Glasgow. He devoted himself particularly to the application of science to industry, instituting courses of lectures intended especially for artisans, and he bequeathed his property for the foundation of Anderson's College, now merged in the Glasgow and West of Scotland Tech nical College. He died in Glasgow on Jan. 13 1796. His Institutes of Physics, published in 1786, went through five editions in ten years.