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[[handwritten, centered]] I8u. March Report Beyer [[/handwritten, centered]]
[[centered, pre-printed]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF 
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION [[/centered]]
[[stamp, right margin]] S43556 [[/stamp, right margin]]
[[right aligned]] WASHINGTON [[/pre-printed]] April 20th 1885. [[/right aligned]]

Professor S. F. Baird
   Director Institutional Museum.

Sir 
  During the month of March fourty three new specimens of drugs were received from Thomas Chisty, London.  These have all been classified, placed in suitable batches and labeled temporarily.  There are at present a number of specimens accumulating which will be [ranged?] into the general exhibit as soon as the cases required several months ago will be ready for them.
In carefully overhauling our exhibit last month we found it necessary to undertake a thorough and radical rearrangement of the entire collection. This work is still progressing and might be