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INFORMATION has been received that the buildings of the Bureau of Science, Manila, have been utterly destroyed in the fighting for that city; and, more-over, it is reported that the Japanese have destroyed the Philippine College of Agriculture at Los Banos, eastward of Manila. The loss of the scientific collections and libraries in the Bureau of Science is irreparable. The Bureau took shape in January 1906 by the union of the Bureaux of Government Laboratories and Mines, and was charged with investigations in bacteriology, immunity, prophylaxis, etiology, botany, various branches of zoology (in particular entomology), technological chemistry, geology and mining engineering. The whole structure has gone—the records of the work of forty years; for the two Bureaux named had been at work for four years before the Bureau of Science was formed.
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Destruction of Scientific Institutes in the Philippines. Nature 155, 784 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155784a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155784a0