M0019514: Announcement of Joseph Lister's election as Honorary Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, 1871

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Photograph of a letter dated 1 March 1871. It is one of a number of photographs accumulated by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as part of its exhibition held in 1927 to celebrate the centenary of Lister, in conjunction with The Royal Society, The British Universities Hospitals and Medical and Surgical Colleges.

M0019514: Announcement of Joseph Lister's election as Honorary Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, 1871

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