THE FINAL ACT 



OF THE 



SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS 



HELD IN THE 



CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 



DECEMBER 27, 1915-JANUARY 8, 1916. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress, convoked by the 

 Government of the United States of America pursuant to a resolution 

 of the First Pan American Scientific Congress, convened in the city of 

 Washington on December 27, I9I5, 1 for the purpose of bringing into 

 close and intimate contact the leaders of scientific thought and of public 

 opinion in the American Republics, to the end that by an exchange of 

 views results might be reached of service to the peoples of the American 

 Continent and that by personal intercourse foundations would be laid 

 for friendly and harmonious cooperation in the future. 



OFFICIAL DELEGATES. 



The Governments of the American countries, responding to the invi- 

 tation of the United States, appointed the following official delegates to 

 represent them in the Congress, to wit: 



ARGENTINA. 



ERNESTO QUESADA, Chairman of the Delegation; member of the 

 Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National University of 

 Buenos Aires; Professor in the University of La Plata; Attorney 

 General of the Court of Appeals in the Federal Capital. 



JUAN B. AMBROSETTI, Advisory Professor and Director of the Ethno- 

 logical Museum, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National 

 University of Buenos Aires; Honorary Vice President of the Con- 

 gress of Americanists. 



EMILIO E. DAGASSAN, Electrical Engineer in the Argentine Navy. 



BENJAM!N GARC!A APARICIO, Colonel of the Argentine Army; Director, 

 Geographical Institute of the Staff of the Argentine Army. 



1 See Appendix III, p. 163. 



