48 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



of the Congress was drafted by the Preparatory Committee and divided 

 into sections in accordance with Article 7 of the Regulations. 



It was foreseen that the sections would need to be divided into sub- 

 sections, and as a matter of fact they were so divided in order that 

 related subjects forming groups should be treated together before the 

 recommendations of any subsections were presented to the section, 

 which either approved them, in which case it transmitted them to the 

 Executive Committee of the Congress for such action as this committee 

 might take, or disapproved them, in which case they were not so trans- 

 mitted. 



The Preparatory Committee had to determine the question of mem- 

 bership in the Congress and in this regard the procedure of the First 

 Congress was likewise followed. Article 9 of the rules divided the 

 delegates into five classes, the first of which consisted of the official 

 delegates of the countries represented, the second of the representatives 

 of leading universities, institutions, associations, societies, and scientific 

 bodies of the different countries, and the third of such persons who fell 

 within neither of the above classes, but who by reason of their promi- 

 nence in the field of science were invited by the Executive Committee 

 to participate in the proceedings of the Congress with the approval of 

 the countries represented. In addition there were two other classes 

 made up respectively of the members of committees officially appointed 

 and of the writers of papers. 



It has been stated that the Executive Committee of the Congress, as 

 distinct from the Preparatory Committee, was appointed, consisting 

 of the chairman of each official delegation or other member recom- 

 mended by the chairman, to which body the proposed resolutions and 

 recommendations of the different sections were to be referred for approval, 

 modification, or disapproval. The Congress felt the necessity of having 

 the various resolutions and recommendations passed upon by a body 

 possessing its confidence, which the chairmen of the different delegations 

 possessed in the highest degree. The members of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, with the addition of His Excellency Sr. EDUARDO SUAREZ 

 MUJICA, President of the Congress, JOHN BARRETT, Secretary General, 

 JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Reporter General, GLEN LEVIN SWIGGETT, Assist- 

 ant Secretary General, and HENRY RALPH RINGE, Recording Secretary, 

 accordingly were : 



Argentina, ERNESTO QUESADA. 



Bolivia, ALBERTO GUTIERREZ. 



Brazil, DOMICIO DA GAMA. 



Chile, JULIO PHILIPPI. 



Colombia, CARLOS CUERVO MARQUEZ. 



