John Gavin Tait, author: Catalogue of Papyri in the Library of the University of Aberdeen Tait was appointed to the Croom Robertson Fellowship (1918 - 1921) with the aim to 'decipher the Grant Bey papyri and prepare a catalogue of them'. The catalogue was not completed or published. E.G Turner when he eventually published in 1939, acknowledged the original work undertaken by Tait In his notebooks Tait notes that after examining the papyri, he organised them as follows 'Latin papyri, Greek literary papyri, Greek non-literary papyri of the Roman period; those which are dated in chronological order; the others arranged according to subject, Greek papyri of the Byzantine period, Misc. Geeek fragments not worth copying, Hieroglyhic papyri, Hieratic papyri, Demotic papyri, Coptic papyri, Arabic papyri, Coptic and Arabic fragments on vellum and paper, Ostraca'. 1918 - 1921