| RefNo | PP/14/14 |
| Previous numbers | PP/46/14 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'Les inoculations préventives — Croonian Lecture' [Preventative inoculations] by [Pierre Paul Emile] Roux |
| Date | 1889 |
| Description | Roux explains how in August 1881, Louis Pasteur informed the members of the International Medical Congress of the recent work of his laboratory on preventive inoculations of chicken and anthrax cholera. Pasteur was due to deliver the 1889 Croonian Lecture, providing an update on this research, 'mais l'etat de sa sante ne lui a pas permis de repondre a l’honneur que lui avaient fait le President et le Conseil de la Societe Royale, enle conviant a faire la lecture de cette annee [But the state of his health did not allow him to respond to the honor bestowed on him by the President and the Council of the Royal Society by inviting him to read this year].' Therefore Pasteur proposed that Roux would deliver the Lecture on preventative inoculations on his behalf.
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Immunology / Bacteriology
Received and read 23 May 1888.
The Croonian Medal and Lecture is the Royal Society's premier lecture in the biological sciences. The lectureship was conceived by William Croone, one of the original Fellows of the Society. Among the papers left on his death in 1684 were plans to endow two lectureships, one at the Royal Society and the other at the Royal College of Physicians. His widow later bequeathed the means to carry out the scheme. The lecture series began in 1738.
A version of this paper was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Croonian lecture.— Les Inoculations Préventives'. |
| Language | French |
| Extent | 59p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1889.0022 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA754 | Roux; Pierre Paul Emile (1853 - 1933) | 1853 - 1933 |
| NA6990 | Pasteur; Louis (1822 - 1895) | 1822 - 1895 |