Gregory family: papers of the Gregory family of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Oxford This collection contains a substantial amount of material relating to the education, careers, interests and lives of the members of the Gregory family from the 16th century until the late 19th century. It includes legal documents, diplomas from various universities including King's College, Aberdeen and Rheims University, instruments of admission to professorships and lecture notes representing the classes attended or taught by the Gregorys. Material relating to the careers of the Gregorys include burgess tickets, papers relating to their membership of professional societies here and abroad and scientific notes and volumes. Items of particular interest include 'Lectiones Mechanicae' (MS 2206/3/2) and 'Lectures given at Oxford University' (MS 2206/3/3) by David Gregory (1659 - 1708); physician accounts of James Gregory (1647 - 1733) which lists his patients' accounts, with a separate index of their names, and other entries such as medical orders and accounts (MS 2206/5/5); a volume entitled 'Formulae Remediorum' which contains recipes for the treatment of diseases (MS 2206/7/15); James Gregory (1753 - 1821): clinical lectures taken under William Cullen (MS 2206/8/17); D Campbell: clinical lectures taken under James Gregory (MS 2206/8/9); and William Gregory's 'Account of expenses for apparatus etc. incurred in setting up as a teacher of chemistry' (MS 2206/14/13). The collection also contains items relating to the lives and interests of the Gregorys including a note of the dates of David Gregory's (1625 - 1720) two marriages and of the dates of birth of his 29 children (MS 2206/1/1); a volume containing 'Reflections on the principles of agriculture, and other notes on agricultural topics' (MS 2206/7/18); a file containing a selection of personal papers belonging to James Gregory (1753 - 1821) which include letters, accounts, verses and inscriptions (MS 2206/8/15); notes for Donald Gregory's 'History of the Western Highlands of Scotland' , 1836 (MS 2206/15/6); a volume of poems and six sketch books belonging to Georgina Gregory, 1833 - 1849 (MS 2206/16) and genealogical information collected by Philip Spencer Gregory (MS 2206/18). There are also a number of items in the collection which were not created by family members. These include a volume relating to fevers by Isbrandus de Diemerbrock (MS 2206/22/2); a copy of 'A Treatise of Comparative Anatomy' by Alexander Monro (MS 2206/22/7); a volume of notes, ballads, songs, sonnets and other poems by the lyrical poet and socialite, Anne Hunter (MS 2206/22/12) and report books of Algernon Percy and George Percy, Lord Lovaine, by their tutors at Eton, April - December 1793 (MS 2206/24). 1582-1912