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Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. August 2nd 1881 Sir: I have the honor to report that, owing to my absence, under orders of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, very little has been accomplished in the Department of the Materia Medica, during the month of July. No specimens have been entered or catalogued. The work at present in hand is the preparation of check-lists, and the arrangement of the Chinese Collection of drugs. Very respectfully James M. Flint: Professor G. Brown Goode Assistant Director National Museum