98 THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



Salt, Alexander E. W. Francisco de Carriedo y Peredo. 



" Seale, Alvin. Description of a new Acanthocybium from the Philippine 



Islands. 



. Notes on Philippine edible mollusks. 



. Some poisonous Philippine fishes. 



Weise, J. tJber Chrysomeliden und Coccinelliden der Philippinen: III Teil 



(Coleoptera). 



The amount and variety of material available for publication 

 has increased during the year. A part of this is secured through 

 an arrangement with the Bureau of Agriculture whereby such 

 technical papers from the Alabang laboratory as are desirable 

 are published in Section B of The Philippine Journal of Science. 

 The United States Army Board for the Study of Tropical Dis- 

 eases as they Exist in the Philippine Islands, the University 

 of the Philippines, and the Bureau of Health, as heretofore, 

 offer material on subjects pertaining to medical sciences or to 

 zoology. 



Much effort has been expended toward obtaining prompt issue 

 of the Journal numbers. Some improvements over the condition 

 of last year have been made. The most extensive single publica- 

 tion issued during the year was A Flora of Manila, 490 pages, 

 Bureau of Science Publication No. 5. This work treats in man- 

 ual form somewhat over 1,000 species, with descriptions of, and 

 keys to, families, genera, and species, and other data. It is the 

 most generally useful botanical publication yet issued by the 

 Bureau. The publication is of especial value to teachers and 

 students of botany and biology, as it gives, in compact form, 

 means of determining most of the common plants found in 

 and about towns in the Philippines. Of minor importance are 

 the new edition of the Catalogue of Plants Cultivated in the 

 City Nursery at the Cementerio del Norte, issued early in the 

 year by the city of Manila and an article on Philippine Shade 

 Trees and Ornamental Plants prepared at the request of the 

 Director of Public Works and published in the Quarterly Bulletin 

 of the Bureau of Public Works. Both publications were pre- 

 pared to stimulate official and private interest in the matter 

 of planting and care of ornamental trees and plants. A short 

 article on sugar, The Financial Loss Occasioned by Harvesting 

 Unripe Sugar Cane, by D. S. Pratt and L. W. Thurlow, was con- 

 tributed to the Philippine Agricultural Review. 



Some effort is being made to unify the style of the numerous 

 blank forms and labels used in the Bureau. While the matter 

 of uniformity should not be too rigorously insisted upon, it seems 



