Realizing that human progress greatly depends upon the achievements in science, that scientific education in this country has been handicapped by lack of satisfactory media for the exchange of ideas concerning new methods and techniques, and that it is necessary to give impetus to scientific endeavors, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from November 17 to 23, 1952, as Philippine National Science Week, to be observed in schools, colleges and universities and elsewhere throughout the country with appropriate ceremonies.

A committee to take charge of the observance of Philippine National Science Week is hereby created, composed of the following:

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 14th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary