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but was not reported back, and the projected surveys were, there- 

 fore, never undertaken. They appear to have failed to obtain sup- 

 port mainly on account of the opposition of the late Dr. Paul C. 

 Freer, who thought that they would interfere with the scientific 

 work in the Philippines which was under his jurisdiction as head 

 of the Government laboratories in Manila. Senator Lodge gave 

 notice on February 10, 1905, of an amendment which he intended 

 to propose to the Sundry Civil bill for the fiscal year 1906, con- 

 sisting of an item for the expenses of the board (58th Congress, 

 3d session), but on March 2 he wrote: " I went before the Com- 

 mittee on Appropriations in regard to the amendment and said 

 all I could for it, but, I am sorry to say, they refused to put it in." 

 Scientific explorations and investigations were, however, 

 carried on under the Philippine Commission. Nearly three 

 years before President Roosevelt addressed his letter to the 

 Academy, the Philippine Commission had already begun to 

 establish scientific bureaus to investigate the natural resources 

 of the islands, and for other similar purposes. A Bureau of 

 Forestry and a Bureau of Mines were established in 1900. The 

 following year a Health Bureau, an Agricultural Bureau, a 

 Bureau of Go\ernment Laboratories, an Ethnological Survey 

 (first called a bureau of Non-Christian Tribes), a Weather 

 Bureau, and a Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Surveys were estab- 

 lished. These have all continued to the present time, but in 1906 

 the Bureau of Government Laboratories and the Bureau of 

 Mines were combined under the designation of the Bureau of 

 Sciences, while the Ethnological Survey was incorporated in the 

 Bureau of Education in 1905, and also the Agricultural Bureau 

 in 1910. The Bureau of Education had in the meantime become 

 the Department of Public Instruction. The coast survey and 

 geodetic work has been carried on jointly by the Philippine 

 government and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

 All these organizations have issued numerous reports, scientific 

 papers and other publications relating to the Islands. 



