8 THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



All of these inquiries have been replied to at length, and the 



appreciation of the recipients is indicated by the following 



selected replies: 



Singapore, December 2U, 1916. 

 Dr. Alvin J. Cox, 



Director, Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. 



My dear Doctor Cox: * * * j have visited scientific institutions in 

 the Orient, to which people pointed with conscious pride. I was astonished 

 at what was not done, as I had regarded it as a matter of course, and now 

 feel that the scientific methods of the Bureau of Science are largely due to 

 your own administrative methods, as even that institution would not run 

 by its momentum after Dr. Freer's death. 



Your work in the application of scientific methods to industry, as in 

 tanning, copra drying, and many others, stands alone. I find that the heads 

 of departments have been trying in vain for years to get things of that 

 kind accomplished, but with little success. The Journal of Science is 

 constantly quoted with respect. The Bureau of Science seems unique in 

 the Orient. * * * 



With best regards, yours very sincerely, 



Sandusky, Ohio, December 7, 1916. 



I beg to acknowledge your valued letter of December 6 instant and thank 

 you for the same. 



I want to say further that in all my travel and investigations through- 

 out the world I have never found any government department and its 

 officials and clerks so willing to give information and aid as your department 

 has done and that it really has been a matter of surprise to me. 



I wish to say further that there is no doubt in my mind that with the 

 material and data that you have furnished me our Board of Directors 

 will be doubly interested toward their aim of establishing a factory here 

 for our trade in the Orient. 

 Yours very faithfully, 



Manila, December 1, 1916. 



I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of twelve press bulletins of 

 the Bureau of Science, as well as of one copy of each of the annual reports 

 for the years 1914 and 1915. I also beg to thank you most sincerely for 

 your kind courtesy in granting me admission to the library of your Bureau. 



It will be of great help and utility to me to receive regularly the copies 

 of the press bulletins whenever they are issued, as well as any other report 

 or information you may care to give me from time to time. 

 I am, yours respectfully, 



Hongkong, November U, 1916. 



* * * The Bureau of Science seems to be the only organ in the Fil- 

 ippines that has any international reputation; this has been established 

 principally through the "Journal of Science". * * * 



I have been making studies into economic conditions, and have found 

 the comparisons with what has been accomplished in the Filippines most 

 instructive. I have found nothing like the work which the Bureau of 

 Science has been doing under you to make the discoveries of science 



