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Some lessons from the civil law, by Edwin M, Borchard. 

 The extra-territorial effect of criminal statutes, by William H. Page. 

 The international assimilation. of law — Its needs and its possibilities from 

 an American standpoint," by John H, Wigmore. 



SECTION VII. 



MINING, METALLURGY, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY. 



Address before the section, by the Chairman, Hennen Jennings. 

 Address, by the Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Frankhn K. Lane. 

 Address, by His Excellency the Minister of Peru, Federico A. Pezet. 



SUBSECTION 1. 

 MINING. 



Apuntes sobre la riqueza mineralogica de Veneztiela, by German Jimenez. 

 Bibliografia de la geologia, m,ineralogia y paleontologia de la Republica 



Oriental del Uruguay, by Rolf Marstrander. 

 Buying and selling of South American nonferrous metals, by lyudwig 



Vogelstein. 

 Copper in America, by Walter Harvey Weed. 

 Datos para la historia de la mineria en la Republica de Guatemala, by 



Manuel Lenius. . 

 Extension y posible explotacion de los deposiios de borato en la Argentina, 



by Enrique M. Hermitte and Julio Vatin. 

 Informe preliminar sobre las riquezas minerales de la Republica Oriental 



del Uruguay, by Rolf Marstrander. 

 Iron ores of the Americas, by C. K. Leith. 



La industria del petroleo peruana en 191 5, by Ricardo A. Deustua. 

 Leyes mineras de cada pais y modificaciones que pueden ser hechas para 



favorecer la explotacion de los recursos minerales. — Historia de la 



industria minera de cada pais con referenda especial a los principios 



de esta industria, by Jil F. Sanchez. 

 Lifting ground water by compressed air, by W. L. Saunders. 

 Methods and costs of obtaining crude petroleum in California, by Thomas 



Cox. 

 Mineral production of Latin America, by G. A. Roush. 

 Mineria y cddigo de minas de Chile, by t,. Julio Foster. 

 Mining costs and selling prices of coal in the United States and Europe 



with special reference to export trade, by George S. Rice. 

 Mining in Ecuador, by J. W. Mercer, 

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