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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



BOTANY IN THE PHILIPPINES. 



Whatever opinion may be held in 

 regard to the advantages or dangers 

 connected with the acquirement of the 

 Philippines by the United States, there 

 is no doubt but that it will result in 



direction of Dr. F. Lamson-Seribner, of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 and scientific work is being done in 

 other directions. The National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences last spring outlined, 

 at the request of the President, a plan 



Statue or Sebastian Vidal in the Botanical Gardens in Manila. 



the extension of scientific knowledg?. 

 An Insular Bureau of Government 

 Laboratories has been organized under 

 the direction of Professor Paul C. 

 Freer, of the University of Michigan, 

 and a Bureau of Agriculture under the 



for a scientific survey of the islands, 

 and this is being carried forward in 

 all directions. The Bureau of Agricul- 

 ture has already issued eight ' Farmers 

 Bulletins ' and four ' Scientific Bulle- 

 tins,' the last of which, entitled ' Botan- 



