1 6 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



JUAN MONTEVERDE, Professor in the National University of Monte- 

 video; Vice Chairman of the AdTisory Board, Department of 

 Engineering. 



ALFREDO PIJRSICO, Surgeon in the Faculty of Medicine of Monte- 

 video; Ex-Chief of the Therapeutic Clinic; Professor in the De- 

 partment of Secondary Education, University of Montevideo. 



VENEZUELA. 



His Excellency Sr. SANTOS A. DOMINICI, Envoy Extraordinary and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States; Chairman of the 

 Delegation. 



Jos6 L. ANDARA, Jurist; Internationalist. 



RAFAEL GONZALEZ RINCONES, Professor of Anatomy in the Faculty 

 of Medicine, University of Caracas; Ex-Director of the Board 

 of Health; Senator of the Republic; Member of the Medical 

 Academy of Caracas. 



VICENTE LECUNA, Engineer; Director of the National School of 

 Professions and Trades for Men; Member of the Historical Acad- 

 emy; President of the International High Commission of Vene- 

 zuela; Director of the Bank of Venezuela. 



MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS. 



The representatives of universities, institutions, associations, learned 

 societies and other private organizations, and the specially 

 invited scientists, scholars, and publicists enumerated in the 

 lists attached hereto, 1 attended the Congress and participated 

 in its proceedings. 2 



AIMS AND PURPOSES. 



The Congress, in accordance with its high aims and purposes, naniely, 

 to increase the knowledge of things American, to disseminate 

 and to make the culture of each American country the heritage 

 of all American Republics, to further the advancement of sci- 

 ence by disinterested cooperation, to promote industry, inter- 

 American trade and commerce, and to devise the ways and 

 means of mutual helpfulness in these and in other respects con- 

 sidered the following general program of subjects, divided into 

 appropriate sections and subsections: 



1 See Appendix VII, p. 331. s See appendix IV, p. 167. 



