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purpose of exhibition, two objects are constantly being kept in mind, namely: -(1) To make the collection both attractive and instructive to the general public, giving them an easy reference to any specimen on which they may desire information. (2) To afford the student of medicine and pharmacy the opportunity of studying materia medica in all its details. 
Every specimen of drug on exhibition is accompanied with a small but concise, so-called [[underlined]] generic [[/underlined]] label which is more especially intended to describe the drug itself as it appears in the market. This label will be found attached to the square block upon which the bottle, containing the specimen, is placed. A second kind of label which may be termed the [[underlined]] specific [[/underlined]] label, is much larger and the instruction which it is intended to give, comprises the characters peculiar to an entire species. The third label is also a large one and gives a description of each larger group of plants to which the specimens belong. This will be found at the beginning of each new group in the exhibition cases.