October 10, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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eral special cryogenic laboratories have 

 been established for the prosecution of 

 such researches, and a liquid-air plant is 

 becoming a common adjunct to the equip- 

 ment of the ordinary laboratory. 



James Dewar. 

 (To be concluded.) 



TEE BUREAU OF GOVERNMENT LABORATO- 

 RIES FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 

 AND SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS 

 UNDER IT. 



The Bureau of Government Laboratories 

 for the Philippine Islands has now been 

 organized for nine months and is at present 

 quartered in a temporary building. The 

 commission contemplates the erection of a 

 comprehensive and fitting structure for sci- 

 entific work, the detailed plans of which are 

 about completed, and the government archi- 

 tect is ready to begin work as soon as the 

 title to the land desired for the edifice is 

 secured. This new structure will be fitted 

 with all modern appliances for thorough 

 scientific work. The individual working 

 desks of the laboratory will be supplied 

 with gas, water, vacuiun and steam and air 

 pressure; electric power is to be furnished 

 wherever it is needed, and the equipment 

 will be complete. 



The scheme of the bureau contemplates 

 a central institution in which laboratory 

 work shall be done for all the bureaus 

 which may need scientific assistance, so that 

 a scattering of individual laboratories and 

 a consequent loss of efficiency and equip- 

 ment are avoided. The work is separated 

 into two divisions, the chemical laboratory 

 and the biological laboratory, each occupy- 

 ing a wing of the new building, with the 

 Serum Institute located to the rear, in con- 

 junction with the power house. 



The building is divided into sixty rooms 

 so that separate lines of work can be car- 

 ried on in individual quarters, each person 

 engaged in soientifie investigation being 



thus enabled to have his apparatus and ap- 

 pliances in the most convenient form. The 

 division of the space is as follows: 



GROUND FLOOR. 



Physical laboratory with constant temperature 



room below. 

 Assay laboratory. 

 Balance room. 

 Combustion room. 



Distilling room. ' 



Researcli room for vegetable products. 

 Chemical stores. 

 Apparatus stores. 

 Storekeeper's office. 

 Bacteriological diagnosis, two rooms. 

 Animal parasites. 

 Culture media. 

 Mechanic. 

 Incubator and cold storage. 



FIRST FLOOR. 



Mineral analysis. 



Director chemical laboratory. 



Director's office. 



Sugar and food analysis. 



Library. 



Plant pathology. 



Biological director's office. 



Biological director's laboratory. 



Biological research. 



Spectroscopic rooms. 



Chemical research. 



Pharmacology. 



Balance room. 



Photography. 



Collections. 



Pathology. 



Physiological chemist. 



Three research rooms. 



Outdoor laboratory. 



POWER HOUSE. 



Cold-storage plant and cold-storage rooms. 



Serum packing room. 



Serum laboratory. 



Serum kitchen. 



Crematory. 



Engine room. 



Boiler room. 



The plans of the bureau contemplate re- 

 search work not only in the resources of 

 the islands, but also in the realm of tropical 

 diseases. The work during the past year 

 has included a large number of analyses for 



