This video shows one of the talks given at the first Hunterian Associate Open Evening, October 2012. Hunterian Associate and PhD researcher, Francesca MacKay explains how her interest in Hunter’s vast and varied book and manuscript collection (held by University of Glasgow’s Special Collections, http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/index.html?refer=itunes) led her to examine how this collection is representative of Hunter as an individual, as a collector, and as a member of 18th century society. In the talk she gives an overview of the collection, discusses Hunter’s collection methods and compares them to other 18th century book collectors and takes a particularly close look at his remarkable and unusual collection of dictionaries.

More information about Francesca, her project and others from the Hunterian Associate Programme can be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/index.html?refer=itunes