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EDITORIAL. 



tions in Manila, a list of all titles (by author entry) was issued as Part 

 II of Publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories, No. 22. 

 This list appeared early in 1905 and contained all additions to the 

 library up to January 31 of that year. 



At the close of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, much 

 material from the Philippine exhibit was returned to Manila. From 

 this collection during the summer of 1905, the Bureau of Science received 

 some 250 volumes, including a number of extremely valuable works, such 

 as Semper s Reisen im Archipel dcr Philippincn, 1868-1902, etc., and a 

 large number of the more important smaller contributions to Philippine 

 anthropology and ethnology. 



On November 1, 1905, by provision of Act No. 1407, commonly re- 

 ferred to as the Eeorganization Act, the former Mining Bureau became 

 a division of the new Bureau of Science created by the same act, and 

 all books, periodicals, maps and catalogues were transferred to the shelves 

 of the central library. The former Ethnological Survey, by the same 

 Act, was created a division of the Bureau of Education and about a 

 year later was transferred to" the Bureau of Science, bringing to the 

 shelves of the central library not only the volumes held on memorandum 

 receipt, but a considerable amount of material which had been collected 

 in the preliminary organization preparatory to the establishment of a 

 Commercial Museum. 



The inauguration of the marine biological work, of the division for 

 the standardization of weights and measures, and of the food and drug 

 laboratory have brought large additions to the library during the past 

 three years. 



From the above it will be seen that the library has not only increased 

 rapidly in the number of volumes, but also in the extension of classes 

 represented. The following table gives the number of bound and un- 

 bound volumes and parts classified and shelf-listed prior to January 1, 

 1910, together with one hundred titles representative of the best material 

 in the larger sections : 



Classes and titles. 



Bound .Unbound' 

 volumes, j volumes. 



General works 



History (except America) 



History (America) 



Geography— Anthropology 



The Geographical journal. 26 v. 



Petermann's mitteilungen. 53 v. 



Archiv fur anthropologic. 34 v. in 31. 



Royal anthropological institute of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land. Journal. 33 v. 



Societe' d' anthropologic. Bulletins et memoires. 47 v. and fi 

 no. in 5. 



187 



67 1 



36 



19 | 



27 



6 



353 



96 



1 



Parts. 



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