recognized in commercial and industrial organizations, and the 

 Philippine Government recognized similar advantages in doing in 

 the same way the routine work required by the Government. 

 The Philippine Government, with its limited funds, has always 

 maintained the policy to concentrate and centralize all similar 

 and closely related work. It was realized that, instead of having 

 each analysis done by a different man, each with a separate set 

 of apparatus and occupying a separate laboratory, a number of 

 analyses of a similar kind for different offices could be often done 

 at the same time by one expert with one set of apparatus, thus 

 effecting economy in time, apparatus, building, and personnel, 

 and affording the possibility of having a better man to do the 

 work. The Philippine Government has intentionally avoided 

 organizing various scientific bureaus, and all scientific work has 

 been brought together in one efficient institution, thereby effect- 

 ing economy and reducing the cost of administration and expense 

 of operation to a minimum. Furthermore it is possible to get 

 more service from individual books and apparatus and also to 

 reduce to a minimum the overlapping and the duplication of 

 effort. A government can afford to equip one laboratory institu- 

 tion well, when it cannot afford the duplication of a great deal of 

 expensive apparatus or maintenance for others. With an in- 

 crease in the size of an institution and the number of men 

 cooperating, the yield of the original and constructive work in- 

 creases much more than proportionally. A large portion of the 

 research work of the Philippine Government carried on in the 

 Bureau of Science would remain undone, except for the stimulus 

 to activity by association when the scientific work is correlated 

 and coordinated in one institution. Having scientific work to- 

 gether in one place insures most thorough and competent plan- 

 ning of the work, better supervision, an incentive and stimulus 

 to direct accomplishment along original lines, and an intelligent 

 balance with regard to the needs and relative importance of 

 different classes of scientific work. There is no other scheme 

 of organization that will accomplish the work with the expendi- 

 ture of so little money. The separation of the work into 

 divisions and sections is merely a matter of internal adminis- 

 trative convenience. . 



The Bureau of Science is somewhat similar to the Bureau of 

 Printing in that it serves nearly all other bureaus in the Gov- 

 ernment, and like the Bureau of Printing, it requires trained 

 men to make the service of the highest quality. It would be 

 quite as feasible for each bureau to do its own printing and 

 binding as to do for itself the work now done for it by the Bureau 

 of Science. 



