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and equipment to handle the additional work which devolves 

 upon us on account of the growth of the laboratory. 



The expansion of the Bureau has also brought with it the 

 necessity of a greater expenditure for clerical work. On account 

 of the increase in the size of the library, an additional 

 technical worker, with good technical training and considerable 

 experience, is very much needed to keep the work up to the 

 required standard. A large amount of work is done in the 

 library for the University of the Philippines, and it would not 

 be an unfair arrangement for the university to pay to this 

 Bureau an amount equivalent to the salary of one additional 

 trained librarian in case such an employee cannot be provided 

 for by direct appropriation. Also, as stated in my last annual 

 report, a draftsman is needed to make ornithological, botanical, 

 and entomological drawings and to mark copy for illustrations 

 for The Philippine Journal of Science and other publications. 

 A man for this purpose would have his time fully occupied. 



Neiu testing laboratory. — As was pointed out in my last annual 

 report, the congested condition in our cement-testing laboratory 

 whicH was originally arranged for 5 employees and in which we 

 now have 17 working, is serious. Demands are more and more 

 frequently being made upon the Bureau of Science to conduct 

 researches in engineering for the benefit of the public. The 

 testing of building materials cannot stop with that of cement 

 alone; it must include many important adjuncts, and adequately 

 to provide for such work additional machinery, quarters, and 

 probably additional employees will be needed. We should at 

 the present time be equipped thoroughly to test mechanical and 

 electrical apparatus as well as ordinary construction and other 

 materials such as we now undertake. Act 2264, section 3-c of 

 the Third Philippine Legislature, special session of 1913, ap- 

 propriated ?=50,000 subject to the release of the Governor-Gen- 

 eral for a testing laboratory building. I have requested the 

 authorization of the release of these funds, and assume that the 

 testing laboratory is assured. 



Additional 7'oom needed. — Two years ago the east wing of the 

 laboratory building was first occupied by the library, the sections 

 of fisheries and of ornithology, the entomological collections and 

 laboratories, and the division of mines. It was thought at that 

 time that those branches would be accommodated for several 

 years to come. The central scientific library of the Government, 

 which is the scientific branch of The Philippine Library, is housed 

 in the Bureau of Science. The library has been added to by the 

 various colleges of the University of the Philippines and by other 



