| Description | Copies of Secretarial letters announcing the award of the Buchanan Medal to recipients, with their replies, usually expressing appreciation. With associated correspondence, on matters such as arrangements for attendance at meetings for medal presentations.
The Buchanan Medal, in gold, with a copy in silver, was presented from 1897. The award is every five years, 'in respect of distinguished service to Hygiene Science or Practice in the direction either of original research, or of professional, administrative, or constructive work, without limit of nationality or sex'. |