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[[margin in black pencil]] Jy? 1 copy ?Y [[/margin in black pencil]] [[margin in black ink]] 1 copy G. 10-21-85 [[/margin in black ink]] [[margin in blue pencil]] Requests Beyer I8 upper [[/margin in blue pencil]] [[printed heading]] United States National Museum Under Direction Of The Smithsonian Institution Washington [[/printed heading]] Oct. 17th 1885 Professor G. Browne Goode, Assistant Director of National Museum Sir: In accordance with your instructions, received Oct. 1st 1885, I herewith respectfully submit the following semi-annual report with regard to the work accomplished in the section of Materia Medica of this museum between Jan. 1st and June 30th 1885. The work may, for convenience sake, be divided into: 1st [[underline]] Experimental Work: [[/underlined]] The experimental portion of the work which has been accomplished during these six months consists in an investigation of the physiological actions of atropine, cocaine and caffeine on the circulatory apparatus; the paper giving the results of these researches in detail, is published in the July number of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences.