DOCTOR FREER AND THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE. 



By Dean C. Worcester, 

 Secretary of the Interior of the Govet^ment of the Philippine Islands. 



At the time civil government was established in the Phil- 

 ippine Islands, there fell to my lot the drafting of legislation 

 which had for its object the establishment of scientific work 

 upon a firm and lasting foundation. 



As a member of the zoological staff of the University of 

 Michigan, I had had abundant opportunity to learn by practical 

 observation how such work should not be carried on. This 

 institution supported a zoological department and a medical 

 college. In the zoological department we taught among other 

 things the zoological half of a beginner's course in general 

 biology, the anatomy of the cat, comparative anatomy, the 

 embryology of the chick, and comparative embryology. In con- 

 nection with these courses we operated the necessary labora- 

 tories, and for purposes of reference we had a very incomplete 

 library. 



In the medical college there were a histological laboratory, 

 a pathological laboratory, a so-called hygienic laboratory which 

 was in reality a bacteriological laboratory, and an anatomical 

 laboratory. 



The pathologist maintained that it was necessary for him 

 to teach his students normal histology because the histologist 

 did not know his business and students could not appreciate 

 pathological conditions of tissues until thoroughly familiar with 

 such tissues in their normal state. Similarly the histologist 

 felt called upon to teach his students pathology because of the 

 supposed incompetence of the pathologist. Each had trouble 

 with bacteriologists over questions as to where histology and 

 pathology left off and bacteriology began. At the outset only 



