CATALOGUE OF INSTITUTIONS— JAPAN, EAST INDIES, NEW ZEALAND, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 215 



Coombs; Mr. A. E. Hefford; Prof. J. Malcolm; 

 Mr. J. McG. Wilkie; Mr. C. A. Wilson; Mr. W. 

 George Howes, in charge of Station and its 

 activities. Also acting as Honorary Secretary 

 and Treasurer. Technical and clerical: 1. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: Some investiga- 

 tors can be accommodated, subject to arrange- 

 ments made through the Hon. Secretary. 



Income: Sources: There is a grant from the Marine 

 Department of New Zealand, New Zealand 

 Government. 



Amount: £300 per annum. 



Provision for 'publication of results: Various scientific 

 publications, especially New Zealand. 



Philippine Islands 

 Bureau of Science, Philippine Islands ('37) 



History or origin: Established in 1901. 



Location: Manila. 



Organization to which attached: The Department of 

 Agriculture and Natural Resources. 



Purposes and scope of activities: Routine work in 

 making chemical analyses, tests, and estimations 

 of several different kinds; the identification of 

 plants, animals, and minerals; manufacture of 

 vaccines and serums; and several kinds of re- 

 search. The fields of research include medical 

 biology, botany, organic chemistry, inorganic 

 chemistry, soils and fertilizers, geology and mines, 

 food preservation, malaria and mosquito studies, 

 and participation in the United States Army 

 Medical Department Research Board. There 

 is under the Bureau of Science a section of fisher- 

 ies, and in the past, several members of the stail, 

 including the paleontologist and those connected 

 with the fishery section, were active in certain 

 kinds of oceanographic work. 



Equipment: Offices and well-equipped laboratories 

 for work of the kinds listed above. 



Staff: Director, Angel S. Arguelles. A staff with 

 specialists for each kind of work. 



Income: From the Philippine Government. 



Provision for the publication of results: The Philip- 

 pine Journal of Science (monthly), Monographs 

 (occasional), Popular Bulletin (Occasional), Min- 

 eral Resources, Annual Report. 



Coast and Geodetic Survey ('37) 



History or origin: Established in 1901. 



Location: Central office in Manila. 



Organization to which attached: Philippine Govern- 



ment and the United States Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. 



Purposes and scope of activities: Hydrographic and 

 topographic surveys and the preparation of 

 nautical charts and air-way maps in the Philip- 

 pine Islands, and the study of tides, currents, and 

 oceanographic conditions in Philippine waters. 



Equipment: Offices and surveying vessels. An 

 office and printing presses are maintained in 

 Manila. In 1936 the vessel Fathometer was 

 in active service. 



Staff: Officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey are 

 assigned by the director of the organization in 

 Washington, D. C, for work in the Philippines. 

 The Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 for the Philippine Islands in 1936 was Captain 

 T. J. Maher, U.S.C. and G.S. 



Income: Source: From the Government of the 

 United States and the Government of the Phihp- 

 pine Islands. 



Amount: For the year 1932 the total amount 

 was 736,996 Filipino pesos. 



Provisions for the publication of results: The charts of 

 the Philippines are published by the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey in Manila, and the Coast Pilot 

 of the Philippine Islands is published in the 

 United States. A revised bathymetric chart of 

 the Philippines is published in Publ. Manila 

 Observatory, vol. 3, illustrating art. no. 8, 1931. 



Fish and Game Administration ('37) 



History or origin: Originally this was merely a 

 section in the Biological Laboratory of the 

 PhiUppine Bureau of Science and continued to be 

 so until 1920 when it became the Division of 

 Fisheries. The present institution was created 

 February 1, 1933, independent of the Bureau of 

 Science by virtue of Memorandum Order No. 6 

 of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce 

 from the consolidation of the activities of the 

 Divisions of Fisheries and Zoology of the Bureau 

 of Science and the Division of Forest Fauna and 

 Grazing of the Bureau of Forestry. 



Location: Bureau of Science Building, Manila, P. I. 



Organization to which attached: Department of Agri- 

 culture and Commerce, Government of the 

 Philippine Islands. 



Purposes: For scientific and economic research work 

 relative to the fishes, sponges, and other aquatic 

 resources of the Philippine Islands; for the diffu- 

 sion of knowledge among the fishermen of the 

 Philippine Islands; for the study, improvement, 



