Collectors of Natural Knowledge : The Edinburgh Medical Society and the Associational Culture of Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century

My thanks to Iain Milne, Head of Heritage and Sibbald Librarian at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Estela Dukan, Assistant Librarian at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Nicholas Phillipson, Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, for helpful advice. An early version of this paper was presented at the first workshop of the AHRC-funded ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ research network (on ‘Institutions as Curators’, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, 31 March – 1 April 2017); I am grateful to workshop participants for their questions and comments.Peer reviewedPublisher PD