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Cover title reads: Albany Museum Celebrating 150 Years of Heritage. 208 x 148 mm; pictorial card wrappers; pp. (ii) + 58; several photographs. Near-fine condition. "On 3 July 1855, a group of four doctors, Hutton, Edmunds, Armstrong and Atherstone, and Mr A L McDonald, an officer of the garrison Ordnance Department, met for the purpose of forming a medical society. At this meeting, with Dr W G Atherstone in the chair, the 'Graham's Town Medico-Chirurgical Society' was formed . Proposed by Assistant Surgeon George Hutton, the Society had two objectives: 'to facilitate intercourse on professional subjects', and to 'collect specimens in the various departments of Medical Science in all its branches, with the view of forming the nucleus of a Museum'.".…