NEWS NOTES 131 



Under the Americans 3506 primary schools have been opened, 

 which number added to the 726 existing in Spanish times gives a 

 total of 4,232 at present in the islands. 



The cultivation of rice has latterly increased to such an extent 

 that in 1907 there had to be brought into the islands from foreign 

 countries only about one-third of the amount imported in 1903. 



The Philippines are a commercial center for half the population 

 of the globe. The total amount of produce sent out from the 

 islands in 1907 was $33,097,867, and the total amount imported 

 was $30,453,810, as compared respectively with $14,846,582 and 

 $19,192,986 in 1899. 



The most important fact developed in the Philippine Exhibit, out- 

 side of the increased prosperity of the islands, is that under American 

 influence the Filipinos are eagerly taking the steps offered toward self- 

 government and self support: that there is administration of justice in 

 the islands and the people are engaged in peaceful pursuits, that the 

 United States is not expending any money to assist the Philippine gov- 

 ernment or the Filipinos except in so far as the appropriations for Army 

 and Navy are in part expended in the islands. 



One other fact, however, is certain to stand out clearly before every 

 thinking visitor to the Philippine Building at Seattle, which is, that the 

 American record in the Philippines is one of which the world will be 

 proud, when this record takes its place in the history of nations. 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 



SINCE the last issue of the Journal the following persons have 

 been elected members of the Museum: Life Members, Messrs. 

 Frederick T. van Beuren, Karl Hutter, Nathaniel T. 

 Kidder, Charles B. Penrose and George D. Pratt; Mmes. Oliver 

 G. Jennings, John Innes Kane and Samuel Lawrence, and Misses 

 P. C. Swords and Anne Thomson; Annual Members, Messrs. J. R. 

 Bradley, Chas. W. Burroughs, Louis C. Clark, Wm. Crawford, 

 RoBT. H. Engle, Henry P. Fairbanks, George R. Fearing, Harry 

 L, Ferguson, Arnold Hague, H. H. Hollister, Marc Klaw, Alfred 

 G. Mayer, Henry Metcalfe, Casimir de R. Moore, William E. 

 Nichols, George E. Pollock, Thomas R. Proctor, H. Casimir de 

 Rham, a. W. Rossiter, Thos. Rowland, Charles W. Sabin, Henry 



