DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 22 TO 28, 1951, AS PHILIPPINE NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE OBSERVANCE THEREOF.

WHEREAS, the progress of the world greatly depends upon the
achievements in science;

WHEREAS, scientific education in the Philippines has been
handicapped by lack of satisfactory media for the exchange of ideas concerning
new methods and techniques; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary to give impetus to scientific
endeavors;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the
Philippines, do hereby declare the period from October 22 to 28, 1951, as
Philippine National Science Week, to be observed in schools, colleges,
universities and elsewhere throughout the country with appropriate ceremonies.

The following are hereby designated members of a committee
which is hereby created to take charge of the observance of Philippine National
Science Week:

IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the
Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done
in the City of Manila, this 12th day of October, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the
sixth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By
the President:

MARCIANO
ROQUE
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary

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