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in place, 460 are printed and ready for display, and the manuscript for the remainder is in the hands of the printer.
     Accessions to the number of 169 have been received during the year, mostly from Messrs Powers and Weightman of Phila, and Parke, Davis and Co., of Detroit, in answer to requests for specified articles to fill vacancies.  Some novel and interesting additions have been made to the botanical illustrations, consisting of herbarium specimens of indigenous medicinal plants, not otherwise illustrated, with the characters of each plant displayed by drawings of the magnified organs.  These were prepared with great skill by Mr.