M0019589: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Hungarian Academy of Science, 1893

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Photograph of a letter dated 29 May 1893 from the Hungarian Academy of Science announcing Lister's election as an Honorary Member of the Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia . 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.

M0019589: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Hungarian Academy of Science, 1893

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