Contents: Foreword, David Gaimster; Introduction, Mungo Campbell. William Hunter: Developing his Museum: The Great Windmill Street Anatomy School and Museum, Helen McCormack; Anatomy and the ‘museum oeconomy’: William and John Hunter as collectors, Simon Chaplin. William Hunter: Anatomy in Practice: William Hunter’s sources of pathological and anatomical specimens with particular reference to obstetric subjects, Stuart W. McDonald and John Faithfull; ‘An universal language’ - William Hunter and the production of The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, Caroline Grigson; The anatomist and the artists: Hunter’s involvement, Anne Dulau Beveridge; William Hunter’s anatomical and pathological specimens, Stuart W. McDonald. William Hunter: Collector: Animal specimens in William Hunter’s anatomical collection, Stuart W. McDonald and Margaret Reilly; William Hunter’s zoological collections, Margaret Reilly; The shaping role of Johann Christian Fabricius (1745-1808): William Hunter’s insect collection and entomology in 18th century London, E. Geoffrey Hancock; Dr John Fothergill: significant donor, Starr Douglas; The mineral collection of William Hunter (1718-1783): assembly and function, John Faithfull; A collection without a catalogue: Captain John Laskey and the missing vertebrate fossils from the collection of William Hunter, Jeff Liston; Archaeological objects in William Hunter’s collection, Sally-Anne Coupar; William Hunter’s parade shield; a memento of Leonardo’s Milan?, Martin Kemp and Helen McCormack; Ethnographic treasures in the Hunterian Museum from Cook’s voyages, Adrienne L. Kaeppler; ‘At last in Dr Hunter’s library’: William Hunter’s Chinese collections, Nick Pearce; Hunter’s numismatic books, Donal Bateson; The ‘Hunterian orchard’: William Hunter’s library, David Weston. William Hunter: The Wider World: On the way to the museum: Frederich The Great’s Bildergalerie in the park of Sanssouci in the context of other painting collections in 18th-century Germany, Heiner Krellig; Dr Black goes down to town: the 1788 tour to Ireland and England, Robert Anderson; For ‘instruction and delight’: the enfilade of nature at Sir Ashton Lever’s museum, Leicester House, London, 1775-1786, Clare Haynes; David Ure (1749-1798): the enlightened fossil collector, Neil Clark. (The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950)

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