M0019563: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Gesellschaft fur Natur und Heilkund, Dresden, 1878

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Announcement of Lister's election as Honorary Member of Gesellschaft, fur Natur und Heilkund, Dresden, 1878

Photograph of a letter dated 19 October 1878 announcing Lister's election as an Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft fur Natur und Heilkund [Society for Nature and Medicine], Dresden. 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.

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.