DOCTOR FREER AND THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE. 
By Dean C. Worcester, 
Secretary of the Interior of the Government of the Philippine Islands 
At the time civil government was established in the Phil- 
ippine Islands, there fell to my lot the drafting of legislation 
which had for its object the establishment of scientific work 
upon a firm and lasting foundation. 
As a member of the zoological staff of the University of 
Michigan, I had had abundant opportunity to learn by practical 
observation how such work should not be carried on. This 
institution supported a zoological department and a medical 
college. In the zoological department we taught among other 
things the zoological half of a beginner's course in general 
biology, the anatomy of the cat, comparative anatomy, the 
embryology of the chick, and comparative embiyology. In con- 
nection with these courses we operated the necessary labora- 
tories, and for purposes of reference we had a very incomplete 
library. 
In the medical college there were a histological laboratory, 
a pathological laboratory, a so-called hygienic laboratory which 
was in reality a bacteriological laboratory, and an anatomical 
laboratory. 
The pathologist maintained that it was necessary for him 
to teach his students normal histology because the histologist 
did not know his business and students could not appreciate 
pathological conditions of tissues until thoroughly familiar with 
such tissues in their normal state. Similarly the histologist 
felt called upon to teach his students pathology because of the 
supposed incompetence of the pathologist. Each had trouble 
with bacteriologists over questions as to where histology and 
pathology left off and bacteriology began. At the outset only 
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