The collection is composed of circa 43 black and white photographs, many of them duplicated, of severed limbs and bones, bodies in decomposition, skull and cranial features, foot casts, shoes and other personal effects. There are tracing paper sketches of skull dimensions, feet, and bone cross-sections.

Bound volume of pamphlets and articles by staff from the Royal Edinburgh Asylum.

Lecture notes of [father] James Douglas Allan Gray 1925; lecture notes of James Allan Gray 1954-1959; letters from J. A. Gray regarding lecture notes 1999

The papers of Professor Andrew Duncan at Dc.1.90 include letters and other material mostly about his travels and studies abroad. At Gen. 61-66 are notes of lectures on Materia Medica delivered between 1831 and 1832. There are also notes for his Edinburgh Dispensary (1803).