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Authorised form of nameLister; Joseph (1827 - 1912); 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis; surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery
Dates1827 - 1912
NationalityBritish
Place of birthUpton House, Upton, Essex, England
Date of birth05 April 1827
Place of deathPark House, Walmer, Kent, England
Date of death10 February 1912
Dates and placesFuneral:
Westminster Abbey, London, England (16 February 1912)
Burial:
West Hampstead Cemetery, London, England
OccupationSurgeon
Research fieldBacteriology
Comparative anatomy
Pathology
Medicine
Surgery
ActivityEducation:
Home schooled until 1838; local school in Hitchin; Grove House School, Tottenham (1840); BA; MB (Lond)
Career:
During his studies he was present at the first operation under ether in Great Britain, performed by Robert Liston in the theatre of University College Hospital (1846); struck by a mild bout of smallpox, followed by a mental breakdown, recuperating in Ireland, not resuming his medical studies until 1849; went to Edinburgh and became acquainted with James Syme, the greatest surgical teacher of his day (1853); became an assistant to Syme at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; appointed surgeon at the infirmary (1856); professor of surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow (1860); conducted his own experiments which confirmed the findings of Louis Pasteur, motivating him to develop antiseptic techniques for wounds; experimented with carbolic acid, developing a technique of treating surgical instruments with it, successfully applying a solution of carbolic acid to a serious wound on the leg of a seven year old boy whose wound fully healed within six weeks, without infection (1865); following his success he instructed other surgeons to wash their hands and instruments prior to and following surgery with a carbolic acid solution, which resulted in a considerably lower risk of infection and mortality; returned to Edinburgh as a successor to Syme as Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh (1869) where he continued to work on developing improved methods of antisepsis and asepsis; moved from Scotland to King’s College Hospital, London, and was elected President of the Clinical Society of London.
Awards/Medals:
Albert Medal 1894
Honours:
Bt 1883; Baron 1897; OM 1902
Memberships:
FRCS; FRCSE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1860
Age at election33
ProposerRonald Edmond Grant; James Paget; Thomas Snow Beck; Alexander Tweedie; William Benjamin Carpenter; Alfred Baring Garrod; Francis Sibson; James Clark
James Moncrieff Arnott; Joseph Toynbee; Edward William Brayley; Joseph Jackson Lister; John Goodsir; Allen Thomson; George Johnston Allman
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
PRS 1895-1900; For Sec 1893-1895; VP 1882-1883, 1900-1901
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1880; Copley Medal 1902
Lectures:
Croonian 1863
RelationshipsParents: Joseph Jackson Lister (FRS 1832) (1786–1869), wine merchant and microscopist, and Isabella, née Harris (1794?–1864), daughter of Anthony Harris of Maryport, Cumberland.
Siblings: Arthur Lister, botanist (FRS 1898)
Spouse: Agnes Syme (1834–1893) (23 April 1856)
Published worksRCN 49527
General contextPioneer of antiseptic surgical methods which became more prominent following the publication of his paper, ‘Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery’ in 1867.
Introduced carbolic acid as steriliser for surgical instruments, patients' skins & surgeons' hands, sutures, and wards.
Listerine mouthwash was named after him for his work in antisepsis in 1879.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1912-1913 vol 86 pp i-xxi, two plates, signed by W W C
References:
A Gibson and W V Farrar, 'Robert Angus Smith, FRS, and "Sanitary Science"' in NR 1973-4 vol 28 pp 241-262
H G L, 'A Fragment of History' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 28-31
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/40170542
Royal Society codeNA8069
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/23/2/250Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord [Joseph] Lister, Fellow of the Royal SocietyNovember 1902
MS/373/1/31Letter from Joseph Lister, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to [Thomas Edward] Thorpe25 June 1898
MS/373/1/37Letter from Joseph Lister, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to [Thomas Edward] Thorpe27 March 1899
MS/373/1/24Letter from Joseph Lister, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to Thomas Edward Thorpe8 November 1895
MS/373/1/25Letter from Joseph Lister, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to Thomas Edward Thorpe9 December 1895
CMB/5/2Minutes, meeting of the Tsetse Fly Committee17 July 1896
CMB/5/4Minutes, meeting of the Tsetse Fly Committee19 November 1897
CMB/5/3Minutes of the Tsetse Fly Committee16 October 1896
CMB/13Lister Memorial CommitteeMay 1912 to February 1927
NLB/15/769Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society 6 December 1897
IM/002775Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regisnd
NLB/20/558Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mrs Bernard Jenkin, 64 Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, W. 22 May 1900
CMB/5/2/1Memo on Horse Surra and Nagana14 July 1896
CMB/5/1Minutes, meeting of the Tsetse Fly Committee9 July 1896
CMB/5Tsetse Fly Disease CommitteeJuly 1896 - June 1897
CMB/5/6Minutes, meeting of the Tsetse Fly Committee 3 June 1897
CMB/14Malaria CommitteeJuly 1898 to November 1903
CMB/15Malaria CommitteeJuly 1898 to November 1903
NLB/27/339Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society[13 August 1903]
NLB/23/2/25Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Lord [Joseph] Lister, [Fellow of the Royal Society]28 February 1901
MM/17/102Letter from Arthur James Richens Trendell, Science and Art Loan Department, South Kensington, to [Lord Lister] President of the Royal Society, Burlington House28 April 1896
NLB/6/282Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister5 April 1892
NLB/7/192Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1892
NLB/7/182Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Roscoe, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1892
NLB/7/181Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1892
NLB/7/191Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1892
NLB/7/194Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Monsieur le Professeur [Jacques-Joseph] Grancher, au Secretariat Institut de France19 December 1892
NLB/7/183Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Archibald Geikie, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society16 December 1892
NLB/7/180Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1892
NLB/16/450Copy letter from Lister, to Colonel Egerton, The Stud House, Kingston on Thames6 April 1898
NLB/18/814Copy letter from Lord Lister, to Sir Francis Knollys, K.C.B., St James' Palace, S.W.19 May 1899
NLB/16/727Copy letter from [Joseph] Lister (President of the Royal Society), to Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar24 May 1898
NLB/16/713Copy letter from [Joseph] Lister (President of the Royal Society), to Sir Francis W de Winton24 May 1898
NLB/10/263Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Professor Peter Theodore Cleve, University of Upsala 1 November 1894
NLB/17/109Copy telegram from Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink, to Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society18 July 1898
NLB/8/949Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society27 January 1894
NLB/14/336Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Lister, [Fellow of the Royal Society]19 February 1897
NLB/11/942Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Herrn Professor Carl Wilhelm Weierstrass, Foreign Member, Royal Society7 November 1895
NLB/13/442Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society10 September 1896
NLB/11/387Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Professor Caspar Neumann, Leipsic20 June 1895
NLB/12/41Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 November 1895
NLB/9/747Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society9 July 1894
NLB/23/1/105Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Lord Joseph Lister, Vice President Royal Society21 September 1901
NLB/11/729Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society26 September 1895
NLB/11/742Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society30 September 1895
NLB/11/728Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Grand Hotel26 September 1895
NLB/13/144Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society22 June 1896
NLB/16/714Copy letter from [Joseph] Lister (President of the Royal Society), to Sir Francis Knollys24 May 1898
NLB/13/119Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society17 June 1896
NLB/14/378Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons2 March 1897
NLB/13/39Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Henry Mahoney Christie, Fellow of the Royal Society, Astronomer Royal, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, S.E.1 June 1896
NLB/13/542Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society5 October 1896
NLB/14/836Copy telegraph from Robert William Frederick Harrison, [Joseph Lister], 12 Park Crescent, Portland Placend [26 May 1897]
NLB/23/2/22Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Lord [Joseph] Lister, [Fellow of the Royal Society]28 February 1901
NLB/12/318Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society28 January 1896
NLB/13/392Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society, Foley Arms Hotel, Malvern14 August 1896
NLB/12/328Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to the Council of the Royal Academy30 January 1896
NLB/13/251Copy letter from Michael Foster, to His Excellency the Russian Ambassador10 July 1896
NLB/12/333Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to F A Eaton, Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts31 January 1896
NLB/12/502Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society2 March 1896
NLB/12/471Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society24 February 1896
NLB/23/1/134Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Vice President Royal Society30 September 1901
NLB/18/644Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society14 April 1899
NLB/13/439Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society9 September 1896
NLB/14/880Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Sir Francis Knollys31 May 1897
NLB/13/578Copy telegram from Michael Foster, to Lord Joseph Lister 12 October 1897
NLB/12/42Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, [Fellow of the Royal Society]25 November 1895
NLB/12/677Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to G F Bumbridge2 April 1896
NLB/14/504Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Joseph Lister, [President, Royal Society][22 March 1897]
NLB/16/698Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society20 May 1898
NLB/12/679Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Sir Francis Knollys2 April 1896
NLB/13/596Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Robert Wallace, Junior Constitutional Club, 101 Piccadilly, W. 14 October 1896
NLB/12/682Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Major-General Sir Francis Walter de Winton2 April 1896
NLB/12/678Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Colonel Augustus Charles Frederick FitzGeorge2 April 1896
NLB/13/649Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph Lister, President , Royal Society23 October 1896
NLB/13/693Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Douglas Strutt Galton, British Association for the Advancement of Science5 November 1896
NLB/13/809Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons 1 December 1896
NLB/13/782Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society25 November 1896
NLB/12/128Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society12 December 1895
NLB/19New Letter Book volume 19, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 June 1899-10 January 1900
NLB/20New Letter Book volume 20, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 January 1900-14 July 1900
NLB/14/128Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society9 January 1897
NLB/18New Letter Book volume 18, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration21 December 1898-1 June 1899
NLB/14/680Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Major General Sir Francis Walter de Winton 27 April 1897
NLB/14/237Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society29 January 1897
NLB/14/683Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Sir Francis Knollys27 April 1897
NLB/18/534Copy letter from Lord Lister, to His Higness the Duke of Teck[24 March 1899]
NLB/14/285Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to the Most Honorable Marquis of Salisbury [Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil], Fellow of the Royal Society9 February 1897
NLB/14/473Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Kirk, Fellow of the Royal Society16 March 1897
NLB/14/879Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to G F Bambridge31 May 1897
NLB/14/678Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Colonel A M Egerton27 April 1897
NLB/14/470Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Fellow of the Royal Society]16 March 1897
NLB/14/679Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to G F Bambridge27 April 1897
NLB/14/556Copy of an address by Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society, to Dr Felix Anton Dohrn, Director of the Zoological Station, Naples[c March 1897]
NLB/14/596Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Lister, [President, Royal Society][5 April 1897]
NLB/14/549Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Editor of 'The Electrician', Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E.C.26 March 1897
NLB/17New Letter Book volume 17, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration29 June 1898-20 December 1898
NLB/23/2/255Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Right Honorable The Lord [Joseph] Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society6 November 1902
NLB/15New Letter Book volume 15, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration3 June 1897-11 January 1898
NLB/14/681Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Colonel A C Fitz George27 April 1897
NLB/14/888Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society1 June 1897
NLB/14/882Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Sir Francis Walter Walter de Winton31 May 1897
NLB/14/785Copy letter from the President of the Royal Society [Joseph Lister] and the President of the Royal Academy of Arts [Edward Poynter], to the Secretary, Her Majesty's office of Works, 12 Whitehall Place, S.W.17 May 1897
NLB/14/852Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr W H Dickinson, President of the Royal Medical & Chirugical Society, 20 Hanover Square, W.28 May 1897
NLB/14/892Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Vice President of the Royal Society1 June 1897
NLB/16/116Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society2 February 1898
NLB/16/444Copy letter from Lister, to the Duke of Teck6 April 1898
NLB/20/396Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to His Royal Highness Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe Weimar6 April 1900
NLB/16/443Copy letter from Lister, to G F Bainbridge, Clarence House, St James's, S.W.6 April 1898
NLB/20/583Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Sir Francis Knollys, St James's Palace, S.W.[24] May 1900
NLB/16/568Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society2 May 1898
NLB/15/1Copy letter from Michael Foster, to H F Wilson, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.3 June 1897
NLB/15/376Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to M Constantin Emmanuelides, Cadi-Keuy, Constantinople3 September 1897
NLB/15/176Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Huggins, and Professor Robert Bellamy Clifton, Vice President of the Royal Society8 July 1897
NLB/15/359Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Harold Leslie Barnard, London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, E. 23 August 1897
NLB/15/546Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Scott26 October 1897
NLB/15/392Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons14 September 1897
NLB/17/664Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Lord Joseph Lister3 December 1898
NLB/15/188Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Commercial Department, Foreign Office, S.W.12 July 1897
NLB/15/175Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord [Joseph] Lister, Sir John Evans, Sir Edward Frankland, Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sir George Stokes, Lord Rayleigh, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Huggins, and Robert Bellamy Clifton, Fellows of the Royal Society[8 July 1897]
NLB/15/257Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society26 July 1897
NLB/15/667Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Viscount Richard Assheton Viscount Cross, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1897
NLB/16/447Copy letter from Lister, to Sir Francis Knollys6 April 1898
NLB/16/364Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Lord Lister, Highcliff, Lyme Regis[23 March 1898]
NLB/15/306Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Under Secretary of State (Commercial Department), Foreign Office, S.W. 3 August 1897
NLB/16/448Copy letter from Lister, to Major General Sir Francis W de Winton, York House, S.W.6 April 1898
NLB/15/360Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Atkinson, Treasurer of the Physical Society21 August 1897
NLB/15/369Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Arthur E Cotterell, Glanmire, Clarence Road, King's Heath, near Birmingham1 September 1897
NLB/15/603Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society3 November 1897
NLB/18/535Copy letter from Lord Lister, to His Royal Highness, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar[24 March 1899]
NLB/20/125Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to H L Gregory, Vienna7 February 1900
NLB/17/101Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society18 July 1898
NLB/16/366Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society23 March 1898
NLB/17/336Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society13 October 1898
NLB/17/228Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir John Kirk, Fellow of the Royal Society10 September 1898
NLB/15/625Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1897
NLB/15/630Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to William Henry Mahoney Christie, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 November 1897
NLB/16/365Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society[23 March 1898]
NLB/16/445Copy letter from Lister, to HRH Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar6 April 1898
NLB/15/366Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Leo Newmark, 410 Ellis Street, San Francisco, California, USA25 August 1897
NLB/16/446Copy letter from Lister, to Colonel A C F Fitzgeorge, Honcastle House, Park Lane, W.6 April 1898
NLB/16/726Copy letter from [Joseph] Lister (President of the Royal Society), to G F Bainbridge24 May 1898
NLB/19/329Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Reverend Evan Maclean8 August 1899
NLB/15/807Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society13 December 1897
NLB/17/52Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Joseph Chamberlain, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies7 July 1898
NLB/17/226Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Lord Joseph Lister, [President, Royal Society]11 September 1898
NLB/17/111Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society20 July 1898
NLB/17/131Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W. 25 July 1898
NLB/20/716Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society22 June 1900
NLB/17/215Copy letter from Michael Foster, to S Dickinson, West African Trade Association, Liverpool5 September 1898
NLB/17/280Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society30 September 1898
NLB/17/335Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Kirk, [Fellow of the Royal Society]13 October 1898
NLB/19/499Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society16 October 1899
NLB/18/532Copy letter from Lord Lister, to Colonel A C F FitzGeorge, Gloucester House, Park Lane, W.24 March 1899
NLB/17/573Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society, York House Hotel, Bath21 November 1898
NLB/18/629Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister [President of the Royal Society], High Cliff, Lyme Regis[13 April 1899]
NLB/19/655Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Clements Robert Markham, Fellow of the Royal Society17 November 1899
NLB/18/507Copy letter from [Lord] Lister and Michael Foster, to Alfredo Jona22 March 1899
NLB/19/17Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1899
NLB/17/789Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Professor Edwin Ray Lankester and Sir John Kirk, President and Fellows of the Royal Society20 December 1898
NLB/19/46Copy letter from various authors including the Joseph Lister, to the Prime Minister, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, and First Lord of Her Majesty's Treasury[June 1899]
NLB/19/37Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Clements Robert Markham, Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Royal Geographical Society6 June 1899
NLB/18/587Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Clements Markham, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1899
NLB/19/255Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Honorary Secretary of the Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Gardens, Grosvenor Road, S.W.20 July 1899
NLB/19/454Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society, York House Hotel, Bath[6 October 1899]
NLB/19/208Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Michael Foster, [Secretary, Royal Society]13 July 1899
NLB/18/494Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society22 March 1899
NLB/19/223Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society14 July 1899
NLB/18/407Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society6 March 1899
NLB/19/444Copy telegram from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society[5 October 1899]
NLB/19/273Copy letter from Robert William Harrison, to the Editor of 'The Daily Mail', 3 Hamsworth Buildings, Tallis Street, E.C. 24 July 1899
NLB/18/533Copy letter from Lord Lister, to Sir Francis Knollys, St James' Palace, S.W.[24 March 1899]
NLB/18/581Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society6 April 1899
NLB/19/343Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Professor John Perry, Fellow of the Royal Society15 August 1899
NLB/21/352Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society2 November 1900
NLB/19/503Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society17 October 1899
NLB/19/405Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society[13] September 1899
NLB/19/412Copy address from Sir Joseph Lister, to the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences on the occasion of their Centenary23 September 1899
NLB/18/800Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society15 May 1899
NLB/19/515Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society20 October 1899
NLB/19/577Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Sir Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society3 November 1899
NLB/19/592Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society7 November 1899
NLB/18/813Copy letter from Lord Lister, to the Duke of Teck, G.C.B.19 May 1899
NLB/19/762Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society13 December 1899
NLB/21/102Copy letter and memorandum on measures to be taken for the prevention of malaria, from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.28 July 1900
NLB/19/827Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Ralph Wheatley Odgers Kestel3 January 1900
NLB/20/98Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, [President of the Royal Society]31 January 1900
NLB/20/25Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society16 January 1900
NLB/18/626Copy letter from Lord Lister, to the President of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.14 April 1899
NLB/18/605Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society10 April 1899
NLB/18/631Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society, High Cliff, Lyme Regis13 April 1899
NLB/20/145Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1900
NLB/20/169Copy letter from Michael Foster, to William Dobinson Halliburton, [Fellow of the Royal Society]16 February 1900
NLB/20/589Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society25 May 1900
NLB/20/397Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Colonel A C F Fitz George, Gloucester House, Park Lane, W.6 April 1900
NLB/20/395Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Sir Francis Knollys6 April 1900
NLB/20/393Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Lord Monson, 1 Buckingham Palace Mansions, S.W.6 April 1900
NLB/20/591Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society26 May 1900
NLB/20/398Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Colonel A M Egerton, 30 James Street, Buckingham Gate, S.W.6 April 1900
NLB/20/391Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Mrs Bernard Jenkin, 64 Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, W.6 April 1900
NLB/20/363Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Allan Macfadyen, Jenner Institute, Chelsea Gardens, Grosvenor Road, S.W.2263 April 1900
NLB/20/394Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Major-General Sir Francis Walter de Winton6 April 1900
NLB/20/485Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Patrick Manson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]3 May 1900
NLB/20/445Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society26 April 1900
NLB/20/429Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society25 April 1900
NLB/20/635Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Kirk, Fellow of the Royal Society6 June 1900
NLB/20/617Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Clifford Allbutt, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1900
NLB/21/74Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society25 July 1900
NLB/20/674Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society14 June 1900
NLB/21/16Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Bashford, Königliche Institut fur experimentelle Therapie, Frankfurt16 July 1900
NLB/22/269Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Lord [Joseph] Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society3 April 1901
NLB/21/539Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1900
NLB/27/56Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society24 June 1903
NLB/23/1/179Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Vice President, Royal Society8 October 1901
NLB/23/2/254Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Deputy Master, Royal Mint, E.6 November 1902
NLB/23/1/249Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society16 October 1901
NLB/23/2/403Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lieutenant Colonel Bruce11 December 1903
NLB/23/1/475Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society18 November 1901
NLB/24/5Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1902
NLB/25/697Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society11 December 1902
NLB/25/341Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society20 October 1902
NLB/25/666Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1902
NLB/27/36Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society[23 June 1903]
NLB/27/94Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society30 June 1903
NLB/26/595Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, The Lord [Joseph] Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society[April 1903]
NLB/26/663Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, The Right Honorable Lord Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society7 May 1903
NLB/27/312Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society5 August 1903
NLB/27/283Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society31 July 1903
NLB/27/502Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society9 October 1903
NLB/27/492Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 October 1903
NLB/30/571Copy memoranda regrading the cause of Sleeping Sickness, signed by J Rose Bradford, David Bruce, E Ray Lankester, M Foster, J Lister, Ronald Ross, J Burdon-Sanderson, C S Sherrington, and Dr F W Mott, [Fellows of the Royal Society][April 1905]
NLB/32/26Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1905
NLB/32/180Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Registrar, University Court, the University, Liverpool22 January 1906
NLB/35/272Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Lord [Joseph] Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1907
MC/20/120Letter from [Joseph] Lister, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, London, to Sir Archibald Geikie14 December 1905
MC/27/62Letter from [William] Watson Cheyne, 75 Harley Street, Cavendish Square, W, to Robert Harrison, Burlington House, W20 February 1912
RR/3/181Referee's report by John Goodsir, on a paper 'On the early stages of inflammations' by Joseph Lister 4 October 1857
NLB/15/851Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society23 December 1897
RR/3/180Letter from John Goodsir, on a paper 'On the early stages of inflammations' by Joseph Lister 4 October 1857
RR/3/179Referee's report by James Paget, on a paper 'On the early stages of inflammations' by Joseph Lister30 July 1857
RR/10/170Referee's report by Joseph Lister, on a paper 'On some new and typical micro-organisms obtained from water and soil' by Grace C Frankland and Percy Faraday Frankland[1888]
NLB/66/245Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard Godlee. Bart., Coombe End Farm, Whitchurch, Oxforshire26 March 1924
NLB/67/700Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to P. Thompson Esq.; Essex Museum of Natural History, Romford Road, E.15.18 February 1925
MS/427/62Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lieutenant General Sir [Henry Frederick] Ponsonby K.C.B4 November 1880
CMB/5/5Minutes, meeting of the Tsetse Fly Committee4 February 1897
NLB/69/733Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Lister Centenary Executive Committee17 September 1926
NLB/22/579Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord [Joseph] Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1901
NLB/7/198Copy letter from Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], to Professor Louis Pastuer, Member of the Institute of France19 December 1892
NLB/5/1239Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society2 February 1892
NLB/7/884Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to the Honorary Secretary, British Institute of Preventive Medicine, 19 Iddesleigh Mansions, S.W.22 May 1893
NLB/11/769Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans2 October 1895
NLB/9/877Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W Graham Greene, Admiralty, Whitstable24 July 1894
NLB/12/845Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Secretary, College of Preceptors, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.18 May 1896
NLB/15/190Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society13 July 1897
NLB/15/872Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society5 January 1898
NLB/17/277Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Josepn Norman Lockyer, Fellow of the Royal Society30 September 1898
NLB/17/271Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, [Secretary, Royal Society]28 September 1898
NLB/17/567Copy letter from Joseph Lister to, the Presidents of the Academie des Sciences, Paris; Accademia dei Lincei, Rome; and Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg17 November 1898
NLB/17/568Copy letter from Joseph Lister, to Cecil John Rhodes, Cape Town, South Africa22 November 1898
NLB/19/163Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Clements Robert Markham, [Fellow of the Royal Society]4 July 1899
NLB/18/409Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society7 March 1899
NLB/19/831Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society3 January 1900
NLB/20/740Copy letter from Lord Joseph Lister, to Right Honourable R W Hanbury, Financial Secretary to Her Majesty's Treasury28 June 1900
NLB/27/231Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society23 July 1903
NLB/23/1/331Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society25 October 1901
MM/10/102Letter from Edward Frankland, The Yews, Reigate, to HE Armstrong6 November 1896
IM/002778Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regisnd
IM/002776Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regisnd
NLB/3/501Copy letter from George Gabriel Stokes, to Sir Henry Isaacs, the Right Honorable Lord Mayor, Mansion House, E.C.26 June 1889
NLB/11/749Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society1 October 1895
NLB/12/335Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society31 January 1896
NLB/17/278Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Ludwig Mond, Fellow of the Royal Society 30 September 1898
NLB/19/143Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Scott Keltie, Royal Geographical Society29 June 1899
NLB/19/652Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Clements Robert Markham, Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Royal Geographical Society17 November 1899
NLB/20/499Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society7 May 1900
NLB/30/501Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Lord Joseph Lister, Dr Frederick Walker Mott, Sir Michael Foster, Dr Klein, Major Ronald Ross, Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Professor Charles Scott Sherrington4 April 1905
IM/002777Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis1897
EC/1860/14Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/547/5/4Letter from Lord Lister, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to A B [Alfred Bray] Kempe23 January 1901
MC/12/63Letter from John Tyndall, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to [William Spottiswoode], President of the Royal Society9 June 1880
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
NLB/21/793Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, [Fellow of the Royal Society]31 January 1901
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/15/186Letter from Joseph Lister, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to the President and Council of the Royal Society26 May 1891
MC/23/260Letter from [Joseph] Lister, Brook Cottage, Walmer, Kent, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [The Royal Society]30 July 1908
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/27/103Letter from the Board of Education, Whitehall, London, S.W, to the President, Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W27 February 1912
P/0081Portrait of Lister, Joseph; 1st Baron Lister1927
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/22/179Letter from [Joseph] Lister, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, London, to Lord Rayleigh10 May 1907
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