46 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



As finally made up, the committee was composed of the following 

 gentlemen : 



WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Third Assistant Secretary of State, Chair- 

 man. 

 JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Secretary, Carnegie Endowment for 



International Peace, Vice Chairman. 

 WILLIAM H. WELCH, President, National Academy of Science, 



Honorary Vice Chairman. 



JOHN BARRETT, Director General, Pan American Union. 

 W. H. BIXBY, Brigadier General, United States Army, retired. 

 PHILANDER P. CLAXTON, Commissioner of Education. 

 WILLIAM C. GORGAS, Surgeon General, United States Army. 

 WILLIAM H. HOLMES, Head Curator, Smithsonian Institution. 

 HENNEN JENNINGS, Former President, London Institution of 



Mining and Metallurgy. 

 GEORGE M. ROMMEL, Chief, Animal Husbandry Division, 



Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. 

 LEO S. ROWE, President, American Academy of Political and 



Social Science. 

 ROBERT S. WOODWARD, President, Carnegie Institution of 



Washington. 

 Executive officers: 



JOHN BARRETT, Secretary General. 



GLEN LEVIN SWIGGETT, Assistant Secretary General. 



The members of the committee, thus enlarged, drew up articles of 

 organization and rules l based upon the experience of the First Congress 

 held at Santiago and,- it is believed, in general conformity with their 

 letter and spirit. According to Article 2 thereof 



the organization and procedure of the Second Congress shall be in charge of an Execu- 

 tive Committee, composed of, first, members appointed by the First Congress at San- 

 tiago; second, of members elected by the said committee. 



By the third article the Executive Committee was authorized to 

 nominate the officers of the Congress, and by the fifth article the duties 

 of the committee were thus defined : 



1. To arrange for the Second Congress and participation by the Govern- 

 ment of the United States, the universities, and other scientific, national 

 and foreign corporations. 



2. To take steps to secure the appointment of committees at the capitals 

 of the American States by the participating governments, the duties of 



1 See Appendix I, p. 155. 



