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descriptive of whatever it is intended to elucidate.
   This work, of course, it will require sometime to fully accomplish. At present, we are, by no means in the possession of all the colored plates and herbarium specimens needed to illustrate every specimen in the above described manner and their collection, in many instances, is a mere matter of chance, but a great deal can be done to expedite the accomplishment of the object.
  A good deal of time has  been already devoted to the large descriptive catalogue which we have in contemplation of writing and which is intended, not only as a guide for the general visitor and the student of medicine and pharmacy resident at Washington but which shall also give valuable information on all the rare drugs contained in our collection to druggists and medical men living outside. This work has been progressing slowly for the reason that the library of this section of the museum is not as yet provided with the books which are indispensable to complete a work of this kind.