DOCTOR FREER AND HIS GENERAL INFLUENCE UPON SCIEN- 

 TIFIC WORK IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By Richard P. Strong, 

 Chief of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science. 



We are here to honor the memory of a faithful and able 

 worker, an earnest teacher, a loyal son of this Government, 

 and a good and kindly friend. Paul C. Freer has left behind 

 him a record of work well performed and, to those of us who 

 knew him, the memory of a well-spent life. Although the real 

 achievement of every great man of science lies particularly in 

 his original contributions to science, and Doctor Freer's publica- 

 tions will be told of by others who are here to-day, for those 

 who have formed their image of him largely through his writings 

 I shall try to relate a few of the details of his scientific career 

 and of how he moved among his fellow workers in his daily 

 life ; for, since he came to these Islands, I have, perhaps, been 

 more closely associated with him in his work than any one else. 



To him belongs the great merit of having been the pioneer 

 in the general scientific work of the Government of these Islands. 

 For more than ten years he has encouraged in every way at 

 his command the cultivation of these scientific branches, and, 

 since the establishment of the Bureau of Science and of the 

 College of Medicine and Surgery, has unselfishly devoted his 

 time to the best interests of these institutions. Indeed, there 

 has been practically no scientific movement of value in these 

 Islands since his arrival in which he has not been interested 

 or has not taken an active part. Though, when he first began .his 

 work among us, chemistry was the branch of knowledge to which 

 his mind most distinctly inclined and the one in which he took 



