THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



Staff, Division of Mines, Bureau of Science. 



Philippine mining possibilities, by V. E. Lednicky. 



Statistics of mineral production in the Philippines in 1915, by V. E. 



Lednicky. 

 Mining in the Philippine Islands, by V. E. Lednicky. 

 Philippine gold dredging, by Frank B. Ingersoll. 

 The iron industry in 1915, by V. E. Lednicky, 

 The salt industry of the Philippine Islands, by T. Dar Juan. 

 Philippine coals and their use, by F. R. Ycasiano. 

 The Acupan Mining Company, by V. E. Lednicky. 



The papers that the scientists of this division have contri- 

 buted to the Philippine Journal of Science are included in the 

 list given on page 40. 



PHILIPPINE MUSEUM 



The portion of the museum exhibits sent to the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco has been 

 returned to Manila, and the whole exhibit has been segregated 

 in the Sales Agency Building on the Luneta extension near the 

 Manila Hotel, which was assigned to the Bureau of Science for 

 this purpose. The arrangement of the exhibit in its new loca- 

 tion is nearly completed. 



LIBRARY 



There have been no changes in the personnel of the library 

 except of the temporary apprentices. 



Routine. — Publications from all sources added since July 1, 

 1912, have been fully catalogued as received, and much progress 

 has been made with the cataloguing of books received prior to 

 that date. Practically all serial publications are now catalogued. 

 The following table gives the record of technical work per- 

 formed : 



An inventory has been completed showing a remarkably small 

 number of losses. The unbound material which has never been 

 accessioned was counted during the year, showing 946 incom- 

 plete volumes, 3,024 complete volumes, 17,100 pamphlets, and 

 644 parts in the library. The accessions during the calendar 

 year were 2,168 volumes, making a total number of 34,200 bound 



