M0019534: Telegram to Joseph Lister from the Academie des Sciences, 1893

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Lister, Associate Member of the Academie des Sciences, 1893

Photograph of a telegram from 1893 from the Academie des Sciences, Institut de France, announcing Lister's election as an Associate Member of the Academie des Sciences. 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

August 1963

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds several files about the exhibition: WA/HMM/EX/A

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.