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the bichloride of mercury.
   These results, not being published any where else, find perhaps a proper place in this report and are, to say the least, noteworthy. The application of the bichloride in the preservation of those of the specimens to which a more direct application of other germicides cannot be made is a very valuable one.

[[strikethrough]] B. [[/strikethrough]]  [[underline]] Work of illustrating and labeling the collection. [[/underline]]
   The work of illustrating and labeling has also called for a large share of our time this year as well as in the preceding years, forming as it does, a rather important feature in a collection of materia medica specimens. In accordance with the newly adopted plan which is intended that every drug on exhibition in the collection shall be illustrated by a pressed botanical specimen of the plant from which it