DOCTOR FREER AND THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE. Xxili 
research men, and the unseemly brawls which so often occur 
over questions as to who shall do what, and as to priority of 
results, have been conspicuously absent. 
For a long time the Bureau served as a training school for 
other and wealthier institutions which could afford to buy our 
employees away from us and did not hesitate to do so. The 
fight for more adequate salaries was a long and tedious one, 
but it has achieved important results. 
In another particular he has deserved well of the Govern- 
ment. My original plan contemplated a close and helpful rela- 
tionship between the Bureau of Government Laboratories, a 
medical college, and a great general hospital. I was told that 
my scheme was chimerical because three such institutions would 
never work together harmoniously. This prophecy has proved 
false. Doctor Freer thoroughly understood the meaning of the 
word cooperation, and on more than one occasion taught it to 
others, both by precept and example. Under his direction the 
Bureau of Government Laboratories and its successor, the 
Bureau of Science, have maintained a helpful relationship with 
the Bureau of Health and the University of the Philippines. 
Doctor Freer may most truly be said to have lived for his 
work. While he sometimes shortened his afternoon hours suf- 
ficiently to make possible the taking of sorely needed exercise, 
he habitually labored far into the night and on holidays as well. 
During his last year he had repeated ‘and prolonged attacks of 
acute suffering. In each such instance he resumed his work 
before he could rise from his bed. In the course of the last 
day of his life his thoughts turned again and‘again to the work 
and the needs of the Bureau of Science. His relationship to 
that Bureau may be very briefly summarized. J dreamed a 
dream. He made that dream come true. It is not too much 
to say that he created the Bureau. It will be a lasting monu- 
-ment to his unquestioned scientific and business ability, his 
clear foresight, his sane judgment, and his unwavering per- 
severance. 
There have not been lacking prophets of evil who have felt 
that the success of the work of the Bureau of Science was so 
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