12 THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



of the Ethnological Survey was transferred directly to the Bur- 

 eau of Science (then Bureau of Government Laboratories) on 

 November 16, 1904. 



The present laboratory building of the Bureau of Science, 

 which was added to in 1911, was first occupied early in the year 

 1905, and at that time the work was enlarged by the appointment 

 of an engineering force and by the operation of steam and electric 

 machinery. From this small beginning has grown the present 

 power plant which supplies electric current, steam, gas, etc. 

 to the Bureau of Science, the Philippine General Hospital, and 

 the College of Medicine and Surgery. 



The purchase of books for the library began soon after the 

 organization of the Bureau, and this adjunct of the scientific 

 work grew rapidly, necessitating the gradual enlargement of 

 the force and the organization of the library staff. The original 

 plan contemplated an expenditure of ?90,000 spread over a 

 period of six years for sets of general periodicals and other books 

 on chemistry, geology, zoology, bacteriology, pathology, phy- 

 siology, and general sciences. Books purchased with this fund 

 together with the thousands of pesos' worth of publications 

 which were received gratis formed the nucleus of the scientific 

 library of the entire Government. The valuable material re- 

 ceived by gift and the continuations of sets purchased from 

 current appropriations have been bound. These, together with 

 the books and serial literature of the clinical principles such as 

 surgery, skin diseases, and ophthalmology, which have been 

 provided by the University of the Philippines, have been placed 

 in the library. 



Work made important by the needs of the Islands was from 

 time to time added to the existing divisions. A cement-testing 

 laboratory — including the testing of road materials and of con- 

 crete, sand, and gravel used in structural operations — and a 

 laboratory for the examination of foods and drugs were devel- 

 oped within the division of chemistry. The serum laboratory, 

 which at first had undertaken only the preparation of vaccine 

 virus and a small quantity of antirinderpest serum, increased 

 its scope so as to cover all sera prophylactics used by the Civil 

 Government. The biological laboratory, which had always been 

 connected closely with the Civil Hospital and had done the 

 general scientific work for the Board of Health, undertook the 

 diagnostic determinations for Bilibid Prison, for San Lazaro 

 Hospital for contagious diseases, and, at a later date, a fair 

 share of the teaching and hospital work belonging to the Medical 



