THE PHILIPPINE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
VoL. I JANUARY, 1906 No. 1 
THE PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
The Bureau of Government Laboratories of the Philippine Islands, 
after an existence of four years under that title, has been enlarged in its 
scope by the addition of the former Bureau of Mines, and in order to 
emphasize this general increase in its functions the name has been 
changed to that of the Bureau of Science. As was the case with the 
former Bureau, the new one will conduct investigations on general chem- 
ical and biological problems involving bacteriology and immunity, the 
production, improvement, and standardization of sera and prophylacties, 
pathology, the etiology, treatment, and prophylaxis of tropical diseases, 
botany, entomology, and a study of the avifauna of the Islands ; chemical 
questions relating to the natural products and resources of the Philip- 
pines and other subjects which come within the scope of a collection of 
laboratories. In the future, owing to the consolidation with the Bureau 
of Mines, the Bureau of Science will also undertake work in geology, 
paleontology, mineralogy, and on mines and mining engineering. 
In the past, the research work of the Bureau has appeared in a series of 
bulletins, thirty-six in number, the individual ones of which have been 
distributed to the public on demand. In altering the scope of the insti- 
tution it seemed expedient to change the form in which the work should 
appear. Therefore, the Bureau of Science has decided to publish its 
researches in a journal to be conducted under the auspices of the Bureau. 
This periodical will contain original articles by members of the Bureau 
staff as well as by others who, in the Philippine Islands or adjacent 
countries of the Orient, are doing scientific work of the proper character. 
The JourNnat will thus have the unique function of expressing the united 
scientific results achieved in contiguous countries situated in the Tropics. 
With the growing interest which is being taken not only in tropical 
medicine but in the agricultural and mineral resources of these regions, 
it seems certain that a publication of the character which is proposed will 
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