Today, it is easy to take typescript for granted. However, can you image what a relief it must have been for Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Smithsonian Secretary and Director of the National Museum. Baird had a voluminous correspondence with authorities across the United States and abroad as he worked to develop the national collection. This annual report from the Materia Medica Section was typed. A hint of things to come.
Please join us in transcribing this curatorial annual report.
Today, it is easy to take typescript for granted. However, can you image what a relief it must have been for Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Smithsonian Secretary and Director of the National Museum. Baird had a voluminous correspondence with authorities across the United States and abroad as he worked to develop the national collection. This annual report from the Materia Medica Section was typed. A hint of things to come.
Please join us in transcribing this curatorial annual report. To see the section's reports from other years, see READ MORE.
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USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1881 Completed.
USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1882 Completed.
USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1883 Completed.
USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1884 Completed.
USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, January - June 1885 Completed
USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1885 - 1886
USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1886 - 1887
USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1887 - 1888 Completed
USNM Curators Annual Reports - Materia Medica, 1889 - 1890
