PART II. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE BUREAU OF 

 GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES. 



By MABY POLK, Librarian. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The following is a brief sketch of the organization, growth, and 

 present condition of the library of the Bureau of Government 

 Laboratories : 



ESTABLISHMENT. 



Provision for a scientific reference library as a part of the 

 Bureau of Government Laboratories, Manila, P. I., was made in 

 Act No. 1*56 of the United States Philippine Commission passed 

 July 1, 1901. The Superintendent of Government Laboratories 

 was given charge over the purchase of books authorized for use 

 in connection with all Government laboratories for the Philippine 

 Islands and was asked to prepare and recommend, as a basis for 

 appropriation, to the central legislative body of the Islands 



(a) Plans for a suitable building for the installation of the biological 

 laboratory, the chemical laboratory, and a reference library, 

 (ft) * * * 



(c) * * * 



(d) Detailed estimates of the cost of properly equipping the several 

 laboratories and of procuring an adequate reference library, which shall be 

 housed in the same building with the biological and chemical laboratories. 



As the result of the presentation of such estimates, an agreement 

 was entered into by which the library should receive the sum of 

 $45,290.66, United States currency, in quarterly, semiannual, or 



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