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[[centered, handwritten pencil]] Curators reports.  Beyer. May [[/centered, handwritten pencil]]
[[left margin]] I8 upper [[/left margin]]
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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION [[/centered]]
[[right margin stamp]] S45020 [[/right margin stamp]]
[[right aligned]] WASHINGTON  [[/pre-printed header]] June 11th 1885.

Professor S.F. Baird,
Director of the museum.
Sir,-
   During the month of May the last of the series of large general labels was prepared and sent in for printing.
   The manuscript of the experiments made last winter on the action of Cocaine, Atropine, and Caffeine has been finished and sent to Philadelphia for publication in the Am. Jour. of the Medical Sciences, the paper being more especially of medical and therapeutic interest, a copy of which will accompany my next monthly report.
   A short manuscript of some further physiological experiments "On the influence of variations of temperature on the rate and work of the heart of the Slider Terrapin", has