g2 THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



should be on the promising medicinal and poisonous plants that 

 have not as yet been subjected to any investigation. The field 

 here is almost unlimited, and a critical study is certain to yield 

 much of interest and value. 



The work of the sera and vaccines laboratory could be greatly 

 facilitated by increased stable accommodations and a larger 

 paddock. A modern operating room also should be provided. I 

 believe there is opportunity for the commercialization of this 

 ^vork in the Philippine Islands if proper facilities are provided. 



The field survey of Philippine water supplies described on 

 pages 31 and 32 is a most important piece of work and should 

 be greatly extended. Few countries are better adapted climati- 

 cally for carrying on field work, and in few countries is such 

 work more necessary or more capable of producing beneficial 

 results. The present personnel is insufficient to do the work 

 which should be done. 



The herbarium collections are now housed in the fire-proof 

 east wing of the Bureau of Science building and, from the stand- 

 point of safety, are well pi-otected. However, the present quar- 

 ters are inadequate, involving much loss of time in consulting 

 the collections, a difticulty that will increase rather than decrease. 

 The preparation of adequate properly arranged quarters for 

 this valuable botanical collection should be made. The constant 

 addition of books to the library will necessitate additional space, 

 which could be readily arranged for by the allotment of that 

 now occupied by botrny. 



Almost every section of the Bureau has inadequate laboratory 

 space, and chemists and others are working in crowded rooms. 

 The quarters for the testing of structural and other materials, 

 such as cement, reenforcing iron, steel, rope, wire, road materials, 

 tiles, cement pipes, concrete, mortar, building blocks, bricks, 

 stone, cloth, etc., are much too small. The city of Manila is 

 most anxious that the Bureau of Science make the regular tests 

 of the gas supplied by the Manila Gas Corporation under the 

 municipal ordinance, but there is no space available for this 

 purpose. There is no adequate protection for the consumer with- 

 out such tests. The need for greater space could be met by the 

 erection of a wing on the west end of the main building cor- 

 responding to the one on the east end. 



I desire to renew my recommendation of last year that the 

 Government aid in sending the more advanced Bureau of Science 

 library assistants to the United States for further professional 

 training, in order that we may have available a group of trained 



