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Report on the Section of Materia Medica in the U. S. National Museum for 1890.
By James M. Flint, ^[[U.S.N.]] Honorary Curator.

During the past year the labors of the Curator, with such clerical assistance as may have been available or necessary, have been devoted to the identification, arrangement, distribution, illustration, and description of the individual specimens which make up the large mass of material already in hand;  to the classification and installation of new material;  to the care and convenient arrangement of duplicate and reserve series;  and to the consideration of such questions of identity or uses of drugs, as have been referred, from time to time, to this Section.
The principal accessions have been:  a collection (about 30 specimens) of East India Drugs, received in exchange from the Royal Botanical Gardens,