44 THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



standard cabinet trays, is easily the best single reference tool 

 in the Philippine Islands. 



Use. — The library serves not only the workers in the Bureau 

 of Science, but all scientific workers in the Philippine Islands, 

 including representatives of the United States Army, the United 

 States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the United States 

 Public Health Service, and other Federal departments, the other 

 bureaus of the Insular Government, the professors and students 

 in all the colleges of the University of the Philippines, 

 students of the schools of Manila, outside visitors, etc. The 

 average daily circulation was over 49, and the average number 

 of publications returned daily was over 40, leaving 3,341 more 

 publications charged at the end than at the beginning of the 

 year. Closer check over the circulation is necessary for ef- 

 ficiency, but the pressure of other work has prohibited any 

 change in method during the year. 



Library training. — The librarian and assistant librarian of 

 the Bureau of Science conducted the work of the Library training 

 class of the College of Liberal Arts of the University of the 

 Philippines from February 1 to the end of the college year. 

 The third-year class of the College of Medicine and Surgery 

 received lectures on elementary methods in library usage during 

 the second half of the college year 1914-15, while the fifth- 

 year class received seven lectures, with practice in the library 

 during the first half of the college year 1915-16. Each student 

 in these courses was taught the use of the more important refer- 

 ence tools in scientific subjects and was required carefully to 

 prepare a bibliography on one medical subject. 



THE PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS 



During 1915 the Philippine Journal of Science was issued as 

 usual in four sections, each of which contained six numbers, some- 

 what smaller than heretofore. Each section is separately paged 

 and indexed. The following table shows the number of pages, 

 plates, and text figures contained in each section of Volume X : 



Section A. i Section B. 



Pages 



Plates .- 



Text figures . 



408 I 394 



30 [ 15 



40 I 89 



Section C. 



434 

 19 



Section D. 



416 

 24 

 63 



The numbers of the Philippine Journal of Science for Volume 

 X, 1915, contain the following articles. Names of members 

 of the Bureau of Science staff are marked by asterisks. 



