M0019531EA: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1886: first page

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Photograph of the first page of a letter dated 8 March 1886 from the President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland offering Joseph Lister an Honorary Fellowship of the College. 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: M0019531EB

M0019531EA: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1886: first page

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