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own country the purposes and aims of the committee and to this end to work 

 always in harmony with the active nucleus at Washington. 



4. That, in order to give this committee added dignity and the largest 

 measure of usefulness through increased facilities for procuring and dissemi- 

 nating information pertaining to its special field throughout the republics 

 of America, the Pan American Union be asked to permit the committee to 

 act under its auspices and with its active assistance. 



5. That the committee, if constituted, be requested to report to the Third 

 Pan American Scientific Congress upon its activities and to offer recommen- 

 dations for the future. 



6. That the name of this committee shall be Committee on Promotion 

 of the Use of Standard Specifications and of Standard Methods of Sampling 

 and Testing. 



This resolution, by reason of accidental causes, although adopted by 

 the Section, was not presented by it to the Secretary General or to any 

 member of the executive committee of the Congress appointed to pass 

 upon resolutions and recommendations. It was only received by the 

 authorities of the Congress after its adjournment. It seems, therefore, to 

 be improper to comment upon it in this general report, devoted, as it is, to 

 the resolutions of the Sections and the recommendations which met with 

 the approval of the Congress, as it can not be said definitely that the reso- 

 lution would have been approved in its present form or with modifications 

 by the executive committee and the Congress. Inasmuch, however, as it 

 was a Sectional resolution, drafted for the express purpose of carrying into 

 effect a conclusion or resolution of the First Pan American Scientific Con- 

 gress, and inasmuch as it proposes a method of procedure which the Gov- 

 erning Board of the Pan American Union is in a position to consider and 

 to accept with or without modifications, it seems to be advisable to in- 

 clude it in the general report and to bring it in this way to the attention 

 of the authorities of the Pan American Union for such consideration as 

 the members of the Governing Board may be disposed to give to it. 



ARTICLE 39. The Second Pan American Scientific Congress, recognizing 

 that the education of the public in the elementary facts of malaria 

 is of the utmost importance, requests that 



The American Republics inaugurate a well-considered plan of malaria 

 eradication, based upon the recognition of the principle that 

 the disease is preventable to a much larger degree than has 

 thus far been achieved. 



The Eighth Section of the Congress considered and discussed at great 



length questions of public health and medical science, and its resolutions 



concerning the eradication of malaria and of yellow fever, although 



couched in brief and summary terms, are of the utmost importance. That 



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