OBITUARY 



j^aul Casipar jFreer 



DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE OF TH E GOVERN M ENT OF TH E PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY AND PROFESSOR OF 



CHEMISTRY OF TH.E UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, AND 



FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THIS JOURNAL 



We are deeply grieved to announce the death of Doctor Freer at Baguio, Philippine 



Islands, on April the seventeenth, in his fifty-first year, from arterlo-sclerosis and acute 



nephritis. 



In an effort formally to express our sorrow and to honor his memory a memorial 



meeting of the members of the Staff of the Bureau of Science, the Council of the 



University of the Philippines, and the members of the Philippine Islands Medical 



Association was held on July 1, 1912. The addresses delivered at this memorial 



meeting are published in this number. 



At a meeting of the members of the Staff of the Bureau of Science, held on the 



eighteenth day of April, the following resolutions were adopted: 



WBii)tVta& it has pleased Almighty God in His Wise and Inscrutable Providence to 

 remove from our midst Paul Caspar Freer, M. D., Ph. D., Director of the Bureau of 

 Science of the Government of the Philippine Islands, since the time of its organiza- 

 tion as the Bureau of Government Laboratories in the year 1901, Dean of the 

 College of Medicine and Surgery, and Professor of Chemistry, University of the Phil- 

 ippines, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the "Philippine Journal of Science," who, 

 for many years, has been our Leader, Counselor, and Friend; and 



WBifitVtH& at best we can do little to indicate at this time our real appreciation of 

 him as a man and as a worker for the general good: Therefore be it 



iEleSfolbeb, That we, the Members of the Staff of the Bureau of Science in Manila, 

 Philippine Islands, do hereby express our deepest sorrow and keen feeling of personal 

 loss in the death of Doctor Freer; and be it further 



3B.es>olbet), That he holds a place of highest respect, admiration and appreciation both 

 officially and personally in the hearts of all of us, and especially of those who were 

 most intimately associated with him in scientific work; and be it further 



3IK^e£iolbeb, That it is the sense of the Members of this Institution that the Bureau of 

 Science has suffered a very great loss and that the cause of Science in these Islands 

 has been deprived of one of its most zealous and conscientious advocates; and be it 

 further 



j^fiolbetl. That we extend our sincere sympathy and condolence to his Widow in her 

 overwhelming grief, to his Sister, Brother and other Relatives; and be it further 



JElesiOlbeb, That copies of these resolutions be engrossed and sent to the bereaved 

 Widow and Brother of Doctor Freer, and that they be filed in the Archives of the 

 Bureau of Science, transmitted to the Bureau of Civil Service, published in the forth- 

 coming Number of each Section of the "Philippine Journal of Science," in the 

 newspapers of Manila, in a paper in the City of Chicago, Doctor Freer's birth-place, 

 and in "Science," the Official Organ of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, of which Doctor Freer was a Fellow. 



For the Staff of the Bureau of Science: 



RICHARD P. STRONG, 

 CHARLES S. BANKS, 

 E. D. MERRILL, 

 fL. S.] ALVIN J. COX, 



OSCAR TEAGUE, 

 A. E. SOUTHARD, 



Committee. 

 At Manila, Philippine Islands, this eighteenth day of April, 

 in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve. 



