M0019598ED: Letter to Joseph Lister from Sir Hector C. Cameron, 1908: middle pages

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Letter from Hector Cameron to Lister, 1908

Photograph of two pages of a letter dated 22 January 1908 from Sir Hector C. Cameron to Joseph Lister referring to a function at Glasgow the previous day at which Cameron had read a letter from Lister and a speech about Lister at the luncheon. 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. Related images: M0019598EA, M0019598EB, M0019598EC, M0019598EE

September 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.