Simpson, Sir William John Ritchie (1855-1931)

Address to Simpson on leaving his post as Health Officer of Calcutta. With signatures of members of the medical profession and officers of the Calcutta Corporation.

4 September 1897

1 volume Printed in gold ink on membrane, backed with blue silk and decorated with tassles. Contained in an inscribed silver, or silver-gilt, cylinder within a leather-covered box.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).