42 THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



PHILIPPINE MUSEUM 



The best of the museum exhibit was sent to San Francisco 

 as a part of the Bureau of Science exhibit at the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition. The Bureau of Science dis- 

 play consisted of about 4,000 items representing the following: 



1. Applied chemistry in Philippine industry, including numerous samples 

 of wood distillates and charcoals; tan barks; tanning cutch and tanned 

 hides; paper made from local fibers; fruit products; essences; oils and 

 beverages; information with regard to Philippine water supply from 

 sanitary and commercial standpoints; Philippine coals, their analyses and 

 results of physical and chemical tests; cement and concrete; limestone and 

 lime from local resources; sand-lime bricks; tile; clay products and 

 polished artificial marbles made from Philippine raw materials; various 

 products from leaves, for example, roselle; and nipa palm and its products. 



2. Philippine mineral resources and geology, including ores, coal, corals, 

 fossils, and shells; models of Philippine processes and of gold production 

 by years; relief maps; geologic and mineralogic maps; charts showing 

 economic mineral products by years and distribution; and photographs. 



3. Philippine ethnology, portraying the life, industries, and occupations 

 of people in the Philippines, including everything from small ornaments, 

 cloths, and garments to weaving looms, household utensils, tools, agricul- 

 tural implements, fishing boats, and even models of their houses; and mis- 

 cellaneous industries, such as fish, hemp, rope, basket, and hat making. 



4. Philippine economic fishery products and resources, including food and 

 game fishes, window and button shells, tortoise shell, and sponges. 



5. Mounted Philippine botanical specimens. 



6. An exhibit of the Philippine Journal of Science and colored trans- 

 parencies illustrating the Philippine Islands. 



The exhibit was exceedingly well received in San Francisco. 

 It was packed and completely prepared for return to the Phil- 

 ippine Islands on January 1, 1916, and will be returned on the 

 United States Army Transport leaving San Francisco in Feb- 

 ruary, 1916. The Government deemed it unwise to leave the 

 museum building only partly occupied when the space was 

 needed. Accordingly the specimens left in Manila were stored, 

 and the building on Calle Juan Luna was vacated for the use of 

 the Bureau of Forestry as an office building. The Sales Agency 

 Building on the Luneta extension near the Manila Hotel has 

 been assigned to the Bureau of Science, and the material re- 

 turned from San Francisco and other material now on hand 

 in the Bureau of Science will be segregated here for a commercial, 

 industrial, and general museum of the Philippine Islands. We 

 shall begin its arrangement about April 1 after the San Fran- 

 cisco exhibit arrives. 



LIBRARY 



Personnel. — Miss Mary Polk remains as chief librarian. The 

 loss of Miss Lucia May Brooks, who left Manila in June to 



