Viewing page 3 of 16

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

^[[3]]

Japanese Medicines ----- 113
Corean Medicines ------- 100
Miscellaneous ------------ 7

These specimens are illustrated by 235 Colored Plates and 37 Micrographs displayed in the cases, and 426 Colored Plates and 1 Micrograph mounted in swinging frames, supported upon pillars standing at the entrances to the alcoves.

In the Reserve Series there are:

Cinchona Barks ---------------- 99
Crushed and Powdered Drugs --- 204
^[[*]]Fluid Extracts --------- 200
Pills and Granules ------------ 70
Oils -------------------------- 36
Chemical Products ------------- 33
South American Drugs --------- 108
Corean Medicines ------------- 107
Miscellaneous ---------------- 346
                     Total -- 1203

The Miscellaneous Drugs include the rare articles, many of them unidentified or bearing only a vernacular name, which are withheld from exhibition until further information can be obtained about them.

^[[*[]] There are about 60 additional bottles of Fluid Extracts from which more or less of the contents have been taken out. For this loss the present Curator is not responsible, as it occurred before his occupancy of the Office, on ^[[this]] tour of duty.^[[]]]

In the duplicate series are 800 specimens, mostly enclosed in pasteboard boxes, and arranged in drawers conveniently accessible.

[[strikethrough]] A Card Catalogue of the collection has been prepared showing [[/strikethrough]]