58 THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



Mai7i building of the Bureau of Science — The main building of the 

 Bureau of Science was completed in 1905. A reenforced concrete wing was 

 added in 1911. The building houses all Government laboratories and the 

 Bureau of Science library, which is the scientific branch of the Philippine 

 Library. The scientific library contains about 35,000 bound volumes and 

 about 20,000 unbound volumes and pamphlets. Some of the activities of the 

 Bureau of Science are: The testing of cements, road-metals, and other 

 construction and commercial materials; the bacteriological, pathological, 

 and diagnostic work in connection with the detection and the control of 

 diseases of man and of domestic animals; the biological and chemical exam- 

 ination of artesian-well and other waters; the preparation and sale of 

 serums and vaccines; the investigation of fungi and the diseases produced 

 by them; in charge of the Government herbarium of Philippine and Far 

 Eastern flora, the investigation of economically valuable plants, and other 

 botanical work; the collection of fish and marine animals, the development 

 of the sponge, shark fin, trepang, and other sea-products industries, and 

 the stimulation of the food-fish industry; the collection of birds and other 

 natural history specimens, a study of the relation of birds to the control 

 of insect pests, and the performance of other, similar zoological work; 

 in charge of the construction and equipment of all Government laboratories 

 in the Philippine Islands and of the standardization of instruments of 

 precision, of measure, and of solutions for the Philippine Government; 

 analyses of mineral products, soils, fertilizers, minero-medicinal waters, 

 etc.; analyses of coals; analyses under the Pure Food and Drugs Act; in- 

 vestigations into quality, composition, or properties of articles of food and 

 drink, of gums, resins, drugs, herbs, oils, and other plant products; inves- 

 tigations into the mineral and engineering surveys of mines; the Iloilo sugar 

 laboratory and investigations into the quality of, and the means of im- 

 proving, Philippine sugars, and the encouragement of Philippine industries 

 generally; special investigations needed by the Insular Government which 

 may require laboratory facilities or scientific knowledge of a specialized 

 character; etc. 



Publications. — The results of the work and investigation of the Bureau 

 of Science are made available in the following series of publications which 

 represent the Bureau of Science before the world: 



The Philippine Journal of Science. 

 The Mineral Resources of the Philippine Islands. 

 Annual Report of the Director of the Bureau of Science. 

 Bureau of Science publications (monographs). 

 Bureau of Science press bulletins. 



PHILIPPINE BUREAU OF SCIENCE CHART 15 



BIRDS AND INSECTS AND THEIR PRODUCTS 



[See prints in photograph stand.] 



Birds. — There are about 750 species of birds known in the Philippine 

 Islands. Among the important game birds may be mentioned: The jungle 

 fowl, the peacock pheasant, rails, snipe, plovers, godwits, curlews, ducks, 

 and many species of doves. The edible-nest swift is found throughout the 

 Islands. The nests of this bird are collected and exported. 



Bees. — Wild bees are plentiful in all of the wooded portions of the Phil- 

 ippines. There is a considerable local trade, excellent honey and wax being 



