THE GOVERNMENT OF THE {PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 

 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES 

 ^P. J , BUREAU OF SCIENCE 

 MANILA 



Bureau of Science Press Bulletin 87 1 

 THE PHILIPPINE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



By ALVIN J.Jcox 

 (Director of the Bureau of Science) 



TWENTY-ONE PLATES 



Probably no government other than that of the Philippine 

 Islands supports a so-called Bureau of Science, but nearly all 

 governments carry on the kinds of work that the Bureau of 

 Science does and recognize the efficiency and economy of cen- 

 tralization, and they refer to the Philippine Government as one 

 where there has been no political interference and where the 

 scientific work has been done efficiently, as it should be. The 

 Imperial Institute erected at South Kensington, London, as the 

 National Memorial of the jubilee of Queen Victoria, by whom it 

 was opened in May, 1893, is very similar to the Bureau of 

 Science. ''The principal object of the Institution is to promote 

 the utilization of the commercial and industrial resources of the 

 Empire * * * and for the collection and the dissemination 

 of scientific, technical, and commercial information relating to 

 them." Its staff "includes officers with special qualifications in 

 the sciences of chemistry, botany, geology, mineralogy, and in 

 certain branches of technology in their relation to agriculture 

 and to the commercial utilization of economic products." The 

 Federal Government of the United States does much of the same 

 kind of work as does the Bureau of Science, the main difference 

 being that the Federal Government does a so much greater 

 volume of scientific work that it is handled in several institu- 

 tions. The Bureau of Plant Industry in 1915 had more than 

 1,400 employees and 273 scientists for the investigation of 

 technical and economic phases of botany alone, while the Bureau 

 of Science has 30 scientists for all lines of investigation, in- 

 cluding botany, bacteriology, serology, ornithology, marine biol- 

 ogy, entomology, geology, chemistry, standardization, physical 

 and mechanical testing, etc. A branch of work that is a division 



Printed in the Philip. Rev. (1918), 3, 239. This press bulletin is also 

 printed in Spanish. Issued in May, 1918. 



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