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of a chemical laboratory in connection with this section or at least of better facilities for doing chemical work.
Numerous inquiries from Surgeon-General Gunnell have been received mainly with reference to rare foreign books which were sent to this office and the following letter is cited as typical of the kind of work done in this line; viz:
"U.S. National Museum.
Feburary 12th 1887.
Surgeon-General,
F.M. Gunnell, U.S. Navy.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Handbuch der Hygiene which you were pleased to refer to me for report. The volume which was received from but a small portion of that already well-known and celebrated greater treatise on "General Hygiene",