OBITUARY 
Paul Caspar Freer 
DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY AND PROFESSOR OF 
CHEMISTRY OF THE 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 arterio-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 will be held on July 1, 1912. The proceedings of this memorial meeting 
will be published in a future number of this Journal. 
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: 
hereas 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 
@hereas 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 
Resolved, 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 
Resolbed, 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 
Resolved, 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 
Resolved, 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 
Resolbed, 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, 
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. 
