TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT X3 



School. Investigations in the provinces, bringing with them a 

 more extended study of helminthologic infections, also eventually 

 became necessary in order to give a clear understanding of the 

 general condition of the people. Members of the staff are also 

 in periodic demand by the Bureau of Health in conjunction with 

 the collecting of lepers for the Culion Colony. In 1910 the Phil- 

 ippine Assembly established a Bureau of Science sugar-testing 

 laboratory at Iloilo. On November 9, 1910, funds were trans- 

 ferred to the Bureau of Science by the Governor-General for 

 the building of an aquarium in the bastion immediately in front 

 of Real Gate of the city wall. On June 10, 1913, the aquaria 

 and circulating system had been placed in operating condition 

 by the Bureau of Public Works and were turned over to this 

 Bureau. 



There was one transfer from the Bureau of Science, namely, 

 that of the serum herd to the Bureau of Agriculture on January 

 1, 1907. 



The Bureau of Science now has not only a local but an inter- 

 national reputation built up on the basis of the quality and 

 volume of the scientific work which we have produced. In the 

 course of the addresses given by those called upon to express 

 His Imperial Majesty's, the German Emperor's, views, at the 

 foundation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut for the prosecution 

 of original research, attention was especially directed to the 

 existence of a number of such institutions in America, and it 

 was very gratifying to us to learn that the Philippine Bureau 

 of Science was referred to as a great institution for investigation 

 established by the Government. 



The Bureau of Science performs a large amount of routine 

 scientific work for many branches of the Government and 

 for private parties. They are all benefited thereby, and the 

 greater proportion of the results obtained have a permanent 

 commercial value. In the tenth annual report of this Bureau, 

 page 29, attention was called to the fact that in a single day the 

 division of general, inorganic, and physical chemistry had car- 

 ried on illumination tests of oil; heat insulation experiments; 

 analyses of rocks, limestones and cements, water, soils, ferti- 

 lizers, coals, and alloys; calorimetric determinations of fuels; 

 standardizations of instruments of precision, of measures, and 

 of solutions; as well as physical tests of clays, cements, aggre- 

 gates, road materials, textiles — such as puttees, khaki cloth, 

 raincoats, and blankets — and of reenforcing iron and of rope. 

 From this, which was done in one division, one can gain an idea 



