secure a large number of readers. In the beginning it would not be 
expedient to put out the Journat in sections devoted to individual realms 
of science, it being better to unite all phases of work in one periodical. 
At a later date, when the number of investigators in the Islands will have 
increased and when the contributions from outside sources will be of 
sufficient number, the JourNAL can be divided into proper sections, each 
one of which will be issued as a separate volume. 
Considering the interest which has been manifested in the past in the 
bulletins of the Bureau of Government Laboratories and the certainty 
that the same, or even a higher, standard of work will be maintained in 
the future, the permanency of THE PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE is 
assured, and while individual readers may find papers in it which have 
no connection with their particular specialty, in the course of a year it is 
certain that one or more important researches on each line of investiga- 
tions will be published. 
Pau C. FREER, 
Director of the Bureau of Science. 
