M0019537: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Academie des Sciences, 1893

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Photograph of a letter dated 17 March 1893 from the Academie des Sciences, Institut de France, confirming Lister's membership of the Academie. 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

M0019537: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Academie des Sciences, 1893

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