USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1882

About the Project

The first United States National Museum opened its doors in 1881. The Civil War had ended fifteen years earlier. The Section of Materia Medica was building an authoritative collection of remedial substances used in the practice of medicine. This Section's curators summarized work in annual, and sometimes monthly, reports. These, together with the annual reports from the other Museum departments, divisions and sections were digested to produce an executive Smithsonian Annual Report. Unlike the brevity required in the senior-level Smithsonian Institution Annual Report, the curators' reports offer a more detailed view into the workings of the museum. Please help us transcribe this second in an extended series of narrative reports and make this popular research collection even more accessible.

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