REPORT OF NaTIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 103 
struments, Boston, Mass., about August 27, 1871. This old atomizer 
was contributed to the Museum by Mr. Arthur A. Shurtleff, of 
Boston. 
The following material of an historical nature was received by 
gift: From the board of trustees of the United States Pharmacopoeial 
Convention (Inc.), through Dr. E. Fullerton Cook, chairman of the 
revision committee, Philadelphia, Pa., manuscripts, proofs, and docu- 
ments relating to the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Revisions of the 
United States Pharmacopoeia; from the United States Pharmaco- 
poeial Convention (Inc.), through Dr. Murray Galt Motter, Wash- 
ington, D. C., one typewritten copy of the Proceedings of the Sev- 
enth, Eighth, and Tenth Decennial Conventions; from Dr. Murray 
Galt Motter, Washington, D. C., four photographs of prominent 
members of the American Pharmaceutical Association; and from 
Mrs. Frances Long Taylor, of Athens, Ga., through Miss Katherine 
Wootten, Washington, D. C., a number of papers and documents 
relating to the life and career of Dr. Crawford W. Long, the first 
to intentionally produce anesthesia by inhalation of sulphuric ether 
for a surgical operation. Mrs. Taylor also loaned Doctor Long’s 
medical diplomas and a case of surgical instruments used by him. 
In planning the development of the collections of the division, an 
interesting feature was added, namely, group representations of the 
more important drugs showing the several stages in their production 
from their natural sources. Opium and cinchona were selected to 
be represented in detail, and the work of obtaining the necessary 
specimens and photographs was completed during the year. The 
first item of the following material received for these exhibits was 
procured by transfer, and the remainder by gift: Fourteen opium 
products from the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury Depart- 
ment; photographs of poppy cultivation and opium manufacture 
were received from the following: Mr. J. H. Hill, managing director 
of the Ghazipur Opium Factory, Ghazipur, India, through Mr. 
Harold R. Foss, American consul in charge, Calcutta, India; Mr. 
Ernest B. Price, vice consul in charge, Canton, China; Dr. Lewis R. 
Thompson, Shenchowfu, China, through the American consulate, 
Changsha, China; Rev. W. Hartman, Shenchowfu, China, through 
the American consulate, Changsha, China. For the cinchona case 
there were received 10 specimens of Cinchona succirubra bark from 
Dr. M. Kerbosch, director of the Government Cinchona Plantations, 
Tjinjiroean, Java, Dutch East Indies, through Mr. S. W. Zeverijn, 
Amsterdam, Holland. 
New exhibits of animal products were arranged during the course 
of the year, and the following material was obtained for this pur- 
pose: Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, In@., donated 6 sheets of colored 
gelatin, 13 specimens of elastic capsules, and 4 specimens of globules; 
