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improvement to mount both colored plates and herbarium specimens on stiff card-board, attach them to blocks and place them by the side of the bottles containing the drug to which they had reference, in the exhibition-cases. This work was only commenced a few months ago and is not yet complete but the improvement in the appearance as well as in the usefulness of the entire collection has been very mark-edly enhanced and will, no doubt be appreciated by both the public and the student.
     It is our intention to, finally, have every specimen illustrated in the following way: - (1) By a well preserved and mounted herbarium specimen of the plant from which the specimen is derived. (2) By a colored plate, profusely illustrating not only the entire plant in as nearly its natural state as that can be done by plates, but also showing the anatomy of all its parts. (3) By a picture showing the peculiar microscopical structure of the different constituents of each plant. Every one of these pictures will, in time, be provided with a label which shall be