USNM Curators Annual Report - Materia Medica, 1896 - 1897

If you ran a museum, what would you make of a very short annual report from one of the divisions of your museum? If you asked specific questions and did not get much information back, would you wonder if you were asking the right questions or wonder if they were working on projects and publications that took more than a year to complete?. Help us transcribe the Section's 1896 - 1897 annual report to the Director of the United States National Museum as part of the full set the Materia Medica curators' annual reports.