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XIII. That an American plant-proteetion con- 

 ference be convened, the delegates thereof to be 

 one or more technical experts from each of the 

 several American countries, and that, as soon as 

 practicable, a meeting of this conference be held 

 to discuss suitable legislation, the means of estab- 

 lishing competent scientific bureaus, and to recom- 

 mend such cooperative research work and control 

 of plant introduction as may be advisable, and to 

 use all reasonable efforts to secure appropriate ac- 

 tion by the several countries. 



XrV. Recommends the distribution of informa- 

 tion regarding the agricultural production of the 

 different countries and of the publications relating 

 thereto. 



XXVIII. (1) That a compilation according to 

 a definite plan be made of the mining laws of the 

 American countries, not only in their original 

 languages, but also in English or Spanish or Portu- 

 guese translations, as the case may be, with a view 

 to the reciprocal improvement of the laws of each 

 individual country. (2) That the several Ameri- 

 can governments appoint a committee to consider 

 the uniformity of mining statistics, and to make 

 recommendations to their respective governments 

 for the systematizing, simplifying and standardiz- 

 ing of such statistics. 



XXIX. That all American countries inaugurate 

 a well-considered plan of malaria eradication and 

 control based upon the recognition of the prin- 

 ciples that the disease is preventable to a much 

 larger degree than has thus far been achieved, and 

 that the education of the public in the elementary 

 facts of malaria is of the fijst order of importance 

 to the countries concerned. 



XXX. That the American republics in which 

 yellow fever prevails, or is suspected of prevailing, 

 are urged to enact such laws for the eradication of 

 yellow fever as will best accomplish that result. 

 That inasmuch as yellow fever exists in some of the 

 European colonies in America, it is desirable to 

 invite them to adopt measures for its elimination. 



XXXIV. That the American governments, de- 

 riving important revenues from the consumption 

 of alcohol, should organize their systems of taxa- 

 tion so that the economic interests be subordinated 

 to the higher interests of a social and moral order, 

 which tend to the suppression of alcoholism. 



XXXV. That it is very advisable that the dif- 

 ferent monetary systems of the American republics 

 be studied from a scientific point of view and in 

 connection with the experience of the various 

 American countries, in such matters. 



XXXVI. That the American republics make 



uniform, as far as possible, the basis and adopt a 

 common time for the taking of census, and adopt 

 uniform principles in commercial and demographic 

 statistics. 



In conclusion, the congress specially recommends, 

 for execution by the present Pan-American Union 

 or by means of any other institution in actual ex- 

 istence or to be established, the following propo- 

 sitions : 



The establishment of an intellectual Pan-Ameri- 

 can union to unite the various associations of dif- 

 ferent character — technical, medical, legal, etc. — 

 divided into sections according to the groups that 

 may be deemed convenient, such as a university 

 section, a library section, etc. 



The details thereof are contained in the records 

 of the congress in the form of four propositions 

 dealing with the proposed union. The organiza- 

 tion that may take charge of its establishment wiU 

 lay broad and deep the true foundations of intel- 

 lectual Pan-Americanism. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The permanent secretary of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 requests us to state that in the report of the 

 Columbus meeting reference should have been 

 made in the account of the opening exercises 

 to the admirable response to the address of 

 welcome by the president of the association. 

 Dr. W. "W. Campbell, director of the Lick 

 Observatory. 



The Bruce gold medal of the Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific has been awarded to Dr. 

 George Ellery Hale, director of the Mount 

 Wilson Solar Observatory. 



At the recent meeting of the American So- 

 ciety for Experimental Pathology in Boston, 

 Dr. Simon Flexner was elected president. Dr. 

 Gideon "Wells vice-president, and Dr. Peyton 

 Eous secretary for the year 1916. The Soci- 

 ety for Experimental Pathology will hold its 

 next meeting in 'New York next December, to- 

 gether with the other constituent organizations 

 of the Federation of American Societies for 

 Experimental Biology. Dr. Flexner is the 

 chairman of the executive committee of this 

 organization for 1916 and Dr. Eous is general 

 secretary. 



Officers of the Philosophical Society of 

 Washington elected for 1916 are: President, 



