M0019527: Letter to Joseph Lister from the University of Cambridge, 1880

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Photograph of a letter dated 4 May 1880 from the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge offering him an Honorary Degree to be confirmed in 1881 on the occaision of the British Medical Association meeting in Cambridge. 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.

M0019527: Letter to Joseph Lister from the University of Cambridge, 1880

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