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[[upper margins]] [[green pencil]] GBY [[/green pencil]] [[black ink]] 1 copy G 3-4-86.  I 8 upper January 1886 [[/black ink]] [[blue stamp]] S51004 [[/blue stamp]] [[/upper margins]]

[[preprinted heading]]
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

WASHINGTON [[/preprinted]] February 1st 1886.

[[underlined]] Monthly Report of Materia Med. Section. [[/underlined]]
Professor S.F. Baird,
Director US National Museum

Sir:
During the month of January no new specimens were received.  A large number of the labels which were sent to the printer last year have been returned printed; these will shortly be attached to blocks and placed on the specimens on exhibition.  A much more detailed arrangement of the collection according to the system of Bentham and Hooker (Genera plantarum) has been made and is now being carried out throughout the collection.  Experiments on the physiological action of drugs are in progress.  A good deal of time is also devoted to the descriptive catalogue which is under way.
Very Respectfully,
H.G. Beyer