128 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



Sections 7, 8, 13, and 14, mentioned in the conclusion or resolution 

 just quoted, follow : 



7. The Fourth Scientific Congress (First Pan American) recommends the 

 use of an uniform chemical nomenclature, conformably to the Convention 

 of Geneva (1892), and proposes the nomination of a Latin- American com- 

 mission, whose duty it shall be to present at the next Congress a joint study 

 of how to apply existing agreements most in harmony with the genius of 

 the Castilian language. 



8. The Fourth Scientific Congress (First Pan American) recommends 

 to American Governments and learned societies the adoption of the con- 

 clusions reached by 



(a) The six international congresses of applied chemistry, especially in 

 respect to the methods of analysis. 



(6) The first international congress for the suppression of adulterations 

 in foods and drugs, assembled in Geneva in 1908. 



13. The Fourth Scientific Congress (First Pan American) recommends 

 the formation of a Pan-American Society of Physics and Chemistry, in- 

 tended to unify the work in each country and to present the results of 

 investigation and at the same time the establishment of a bibliographic 

 review, to serve as organ of the society. 



14. The Fourth Scientific Congress (First Pan American) recommends 

 to governments and institutions of learning, as a means of promoting the 

 industrial and intellectual progress of American nations, the foundation of 

 independent institutes and laboratories of physics and chemistry, pure and 

 applied, in all departments, which shall be devoted to scientific study 

 and investigation and to the teaching and application of the sciences 

 named. 



The Seventh Section therefore considered the matters contained in sec- 

 tions 7, 8, 13, and 14 above quoted, as well as the procedure outlined in 

 Article 15, and to give effect thereto agreed upon the following resolution : 



1. That, in order to carry out the injunction of the closing sentence of 

 resolution 15, Section II, First Pan American Congress, a committee be 

 constituted with the following functions: 



To promote in whatsoever way shall appear feasible and not in conflict 

 with the provisions of any other resolution adopted by this Congress, the 

 adoption of uniform or standard specifications as to composition or quality 

 and of uniform or standard methods of sampling and testing (chemical and 

 physical), particularly with respect to such materials or commodities as enter 

 into commerce and whose composition or quality can be determined by 

 tests of the kind named. 



2 . That the active nucleus of this committee shall consist of not more than 

 five members, to be drawn (with the consent of those in authority) from the 

 scientific Bureaus most concerned of the following governmental depart- 

 ments in Washington: Agriculture, Interior, and Commerce. 



3 . That each Republic of Latin America is entitled to a representation on 

 this committee of one member, whose duty it shall be to further within his 



