156 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



Each member of the Executive Committee so designated shall nominate 

 the members of his section committee and shall select the chairmen for 

 its various subsections. The chairman of each section shall be a mem- 

 ber ex officio of each subsection committee. 



ART. 5. The duties of the Executive Committee, in cooperation 

 with the secretary general, are: 



1. To arrange for the Second Congress and participation by the 

 Government of the United States, the universities, and other scientific, 

 national, and foreign corporations. 



2. To take steps to secure the appointment of committees at the 

 capitals of the American States by the participating governments, 

 the duties of which committees shall be to cooperate in the prepara- 

 tions for the Congress; to prepare lists of the persons to be invited to 

 participate in its proceedings; to procure an adequate representation 

 from the several countries; and to suggest such questions as, because of 

 their evident American interest, should be submitted to the Congress. 



3. To prepare a list of members of the Congress in conformity with 

 the provisions of Article 9. 



ART. 6. After the election of the officers of the Congress, the Execu- 

 tive Committee shall act under their direction, but shall reassume its 

 original functions after the adjournment of the Congress. It shall 

 then have charge of the publication of the proceedings of the Congress. 



SECTIONS. 



ART. 7. The following are the sections into which the Congress will 

 be divided, alphabetically arranged: 

 I. Anthropology. 

 II. Astronomy, Meteorology, and Seismology. 



III. Conservation of Natural Resources, Agriculture, Irrigation, 



and Forestry. 



IV. Education. 

 V. Engineering. 



VI. International Law, Public Law, and Jurisprudence. 

 VII. Mining and Metallurgy, Economic Geology, and Applied 



Chemistry. 



VIII. Public Health and Medical Science. 

 IX. Transportation, Commerce, Finance, and Taxation. 



SECTION COMMITTEES. 



ART. 8. The section committees shall hold separately such meetings 

 as they may deem necessary for the determination of the matters sub- 

 mitted to them. 



