58 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



The topics of an engineering nature especially referred to the Second 

 by the preceding Congress were those of the type of construction best 

 adapted for piers and quays in locations where the water front possessed 

 great depths and swift currents; the laws and regulations regarding the 

 use of water for combined purposes of navigation, irrigation, municipal 

 water supply, and water-power development; methods of irrigation; and 

 the compilation of engineering terms and idioms peculiar to each Pan 

 American country, with their Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English 

 equivalents. As regards the latter topic it was not expected that the 

 work of the Second Congress would be in any way final but that it would 

 be rather of the nature of a report of progress, looking forward to com- 

 pletion at future Congresses. 



The various subjects enumerated in the program were carefully 

 discussed by persons specially qualified by their training so to do, and 

 it is a gratifying fact that fully one-third of all the papers, which are of 

 great value, as will be seen from the proceedings, were contributed by 

 representative Latin American scientists. 



As an indication of the desire of the engineers of North America 

 to be helpful to the members of their profession in the Americas, it may 

 be stated that, at the first general session of the Engineering Section, 

 the attention of the Latin American members was especially invited to the 

 desire of the officers and committee of this Section freely to aid all Latin 

 American delegates in meeting such engineers and in visiting such 

 engineering works and manufacturing plants in the United States of 

 America as the Latin American delegates might wish to meet and to 

 visit. The attention of the visiting delegates was especially called to 

 the existence in New York City of the American Society of Civil Engi- 

 neers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Society of Naval Architects and 

 Marine Engineers, and to the fact that each of these Societies would be 

 glad to extend to all Latin American delegates, after the conclusion 

 of the sessions of the Congress, the uses, facilities, and courtesies of the 

 societies, libraries, and rooms in New York City; that their officers would 

 be happy to assist all Latin American delegates in making any necessary 

 arrangements for desired visits to the various engineering societies and 

 factories above referred to, and for correspondence with North American 

 engineers and manufacturers at any future date and on any topic of 

 mutual interest to Pan American engineers. 



The Engineering Section hoped that the participation of the visiting 

 delegates in the proceedings of the Congress would be but Ihe beginning 

 of friendly and harmonious cooperation, and the members of the Sec- 



