FINAL, ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 259 



MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 19162.30 O'CLOCK. 

 Section VH as a Whole. 



SMALL BANQUET HALL, RALEIGH HOTEL. 



GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Chairman. 

 TULIO OSPINA, Honorary Chairman. 



Gold and Silver in the Western Hemisphere. 



WAUDEMAR LINDGREN, Geologist, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Boston, Mass. 



The American Alining Congress and its Work. 



CARL SCHOLZ, President, American Mining Congress, Chicago, 111. 



Assaying in the United States Mint Service. 



R. W. WOOU.EY, Director, United States Mint, Washington, D. C. 



The Storage and Handling of Explosives in Mines. 



C. E. MUNROE, Dean, Graduate Studies, George Washington Uni- 

 versity, Washington, D. C. 



TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 19169.30 O'CLOCK. 



Joint Session Subsection 1 (Mining), Subsection 2 (Metallurgy), and Subsection 3 



(Geology). 



ROOM A, RALEIGH HOTEL. 



GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Chairman. 



Recent Progress in Electrical Smoke Precipitation. 



F. G. CoTTREUv, Chief Chemist, United States Bureau of Mines, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Coal-dust Firing in Reverberatories. 



C. R. KuzEUv, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Anaconda, 

 Mont. 



Organization and Cost of Geological Surveys. 



DAVID WHITE, Chief Geologist, United States Geological Survey. 



Report on the Mineral Resources of Uruguay. 



ROLF MARSTRANDER, Mining Engineer, Montevideo, Uruguay. 



Age of Peruvian Fossils. 



C. I. LJSSON, Lima, Peru. 



