This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nNABAIB/5404.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: .....For the BMA’s attitude to women, see P Bartrip, Themselves Writ Large: the British Medical Association 1832-1966 (London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1996), 46-54. Although the BMA refused to accept new women members as a result of this campaign by Lister and a group of other eminent doctors, it could find no valid reason to expel Garrett Anderson and Frances Hoggan, the existing members whose nominations had not been rejected. http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/hn/history/seminars01.html also http://www.whale.to/vaccines/smallpox22.html ........With my son Theodore, always deeply interested in my friends and public work, I called, during my stay in London, on Mrs. Grey, Miss Jessie Boucherett, and Dr. Hoggan, who had written essays for "The Woman Question in Europe"; on our American minister (Mr. Lowell), Mr. and Mrs. George W. Smalley, and many other notable men and women. ....... http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stanton/years/years-XXII.html ^^ the bits i found..