. Popular science monthly. ofthe staff of the Bureau of the work published or to bepublished in the Journal may be notedthe proceedings of the InternationalPlague Conference at Mukden in 1911,of which Dr. Strong and Dr. Teaguewere members. Experiments have beencarried on in several directions, in-cluding work on beri-beri, surra andentamcebic dysentery. In the botanicalsection additions have been made tothe herbarium which now numbers over100,000 specimens, but apparently novery great amount of field work hasbeen done. The division of entomol-ogy has done economic work in pro-mot
. Popular science monthly. ofthe staff of the Bureau of the work published or to bepublished in the Journal may be notedthe proceedings of the InternationalPlague Conference at Mukden in 1911,of which Dr. Strong and Dr. Teaguewere members. Experiments have beencarried on in several directions, in-cluding work on beri-beri, surra andentamcebic dysentery. In the botanicalsection additions have been made tothe herbarium which now numbers over100,000 specimens, but apparently novery great amount of field work hasbeen done. The division of entomol-ogy has done economic work in pro-moting silk culture and has carried oncampaigns to exterminate the mosquitoand other disease-bearing insects. Thesection of fisheries has studied shellsused in the manufacture of buttons,tortoise shells, the shark-fin industryand the manufacture of leather fromthe skins of marine animals. Some-thing, but apparently not much, hasbeen accomplished in stocking thestreams with game fish and in the 2o6 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. Sir Jonathan Hdtchinson, the distinguished London surgeon and author who has died at the age of eighty-five years. study of the deep-sea fisheries. Anaquarium has been built in the bastionin front of the Eeal Gate of the chemical laboratory like the bio-logical laboratory is largely occupiedwith routine work, there having beenmade last year over 10,000 analysesand tests. The investigations includethe study of Philippine soils, coal andPortland cement. A sugar laboratoryhas been opened at Iloilo, and it isrecommended that there be establishedan. experiment station in that region,where sugar cane of various kinds canbe tested. The division of mines has,like the other departments, been largelyoccupied with routine work. Investi-gations have been made of the black sands, of the ore deposits, includinggold veins, and of the raw materialsfor cement. The division of ethnologyhas continued the study of the Ilocopeople and the museum has been de-veloped. It i
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