REPORT ON THE SECTION OF MATERIA MEDICA IN THE U. S. 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



By H. G. Beyer, M. D., Assistant Surgeon, If. 8. X., Honorary Curator. 



Targua. 

 Jequirity. 

 Cuprea bark. 

 Cupreiii* sulphate. 

 Butyrosum tonientosuni. 

 Black quinine bark. 

 Boussingaultia baselloides 

 Piper betel. 

 Michelia nilgherica. 

 Canutilla inexicana. 

 Gracillaria lichenoides. 

 Aconitum ferox. 

 Preinna serratifolia. 

 Justicia adathoba. 

 Chaulmugra seeds. 

 Toddalia aculeata. 



Myrospermum toluiferfim. 

 Camacusan nuts. 

 Eupatorium aya-pana. 

 Ocimum canum. 

 Levisticum chinensis. 

 Smilax zeylanica. 

 Bucha spinosa. 

 Cinchona Remijia. 

 Remijia Purdeana. 

 Pterocarpns edulis. 

 Guain tea. 

 Para rubber seed. 

 Herpestris monniera. 

 Macha root. 

 Yarkasuranuts. 



The accessions to this section between January 1 and June 30 are 

 here given : 



Black canula. 



Syzgiuui jambolanum. 



Hinteah. 



Datura stramonium. 



Aconitum heterophyllum. 



Diospyros embryopteris. 



Withania coagulans. 



Compleurum cerulatum. 



Quassia wood. 



Odongo. 



Sethia acuminata. 



Raffia vinifera. 



Vitus agnus costus. 



Poimiana regia. 



Debrudwa wood. 



Palm fiber from Ceylon. 



Character of routine tcor~k. — When specimens are received, they are, 

 after being carefully examined, entered upon the register, and, accord- 

 ing to their condition, dried, bottled, and labeled, after which they are 

 added to the exhibit, which is arranged as follows : (1) animal prod- 

 ucts; (2) vegetable products; (3) products of fermentation and dis- 

 tillation; (4) inorganic products ; the entire collection being prefaced 

 by an array of all the " medicinal forms" in which medicines occur. 



Bevieic of researches and papers published. — In January a translation 

 from the German of Professor Heubner's " Experimental Diphtheria" 

 made by the curator of this section, was published b$* George S. Davis 

 & Co., of Detroit, Mich. 



In February two specimens of cinchona bark, one from Guatemala 

 and one from Costa Eica, were presented to this section of the Museum 

 for assay. This was performed with the following results : 



1 T~+oi Ether 



Habitat ' aivSnfdn 80lable 



alkaloids, auj-ajo^g. 



Guatemala 



Per cent 

 8.00 

 0.80 



Per cent 

 4.00 











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