FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 55 



The information we have with regard to the industrial, econo- 

 mic, and sanitary development of the Philippine Islands is not 

 sufficiently used. I desire to emphasize the fact that there is 

 extensive information along many lines in the Bureau of Science 

 that should effect a large annual saving to the inhabitants of 

 these Islands, if it were utilized. There is no adequate means 

 of putting the people of the Islands in touch with this infor- 

 mation. The best and probably the only way to interest those 

 to whom the introduction of desirable modifications of existing 

 methods is most important is by actual demonstration. 



The suggestion has been made that the Philippine Journal of 

 Science is not sufficiently popular in form. Popular information 

 is only of passing interest, but the Philippine Journal of Science 

 prints concise, accurately edited facts. By far the best plan 

 is to publish concise, accurate, scientific literature and to bring 

 this information to the inhabitants of these Islands by personal 

 demonstration. We should have available in the Bureau of 

 Science men whose work it should be to demonstrate the 

 modifications in the drying of copra, the extraction and handling 

 of the sugar-cane juices, the tanning of leather, the manu- 

 facture of lime, the extension of the silkworm industry, etc. 

 Recently in my office a Spanish coconut grower discussed the 

 drying of copra. He had lived in Laguna ever since American 

 occupation of the Philippine Islands and had never before visited 

 the Bureau of Science. His visit on this occasion was the direct 

 outcome of a conversation with a representative of the Bureau 

 of Science when the latter was in Laguna in the furtherance of 

 our copra-drying propaganda. I recommend that provision be 

 made for a corps of demonstrators in the Bureau of Science. 



It is recommended that the Government provide for sending 

 the most capable and advanced library assistants of the Bureau 

 of Science to the United States for further professional train- 

 ing in order that the Philippine Islands may have available a 

 group of trained employees for carrying on library work of a 

 high order and for teaching in the library-training courses. 



The matter of safe-guarding the herbarium has been brought 

 up year after year. Somewhat over a year ago all types of 

 Philippine plants were segregated and stored in separate cases, 

 distinct from the general herbarium, in the concrete east wing 

 of the Bureau of Science building. During my absence in the 

 United States the entire herbarium, except the fungi, was trans- 

 ferred to the quarters in the new wing formerly occupied by the 



