M0019532EA: Letter to Joseph Lister from Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, 1886

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Letter to Lister from Royal Zoological Society of Ireland

Photograph of the first two pages of a letter dated 8 March 1886 from the Honorary Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, D. Cunningham, an old pupil of Lister's, announcing Lister's election as an Honorary Member of the Society. 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: M0019532EB

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.