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[[stamped in upper right corner]] b.B.G. Oct 9 1891 [[/stamped in upper right corner]]

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    [[triple underlined]] Report [[/triple underlined]] on the Section of Materia Mecica in the U.S. National Museum, 1891.
     By [[double underlined]] James McFlint [[/double underlined]], U.S. Navy,[[underlined]] Honorary Curator [[/underlined]]
[[Paragraph symbol]] Since the last report from this Section the work of arranging, displaying, and providing with descriptive labels the large number of specimens composing the exhibit, has been systematically continued.  With the exception of the small collection of Medicines of the North American Indians, and the Chinese and Japanese Drugs, every specimen of drug has now its printed descriptive label attached.  In addition to these, of the [[strikethrough]] 892 [[/strikethrough]] 862 illustrations of plants and animals, in the exhibit, 350 have their descriptive labels