SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 
December 27, 1915 - January 8, 1916. 
Organisation Officers! 
John Barrett, LL.D,, Secretary General. 
Glen Levin Swiggett, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary General. 
Headquarters: 
Pan American Union, Washington, D. C. 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS. 
The nine main Sections of the Program of the Congress, with the names 
of the Chairmen in charge of each section, are as follows: 
I. Anthropology, William H. Holmes, B.S., Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 
II. Astronomy, Meteorology, and Seismology, Robert S. Woodward, Ph.D., Car- 
negie Institution, Washington, D. C. 
Ill, Conservation of Natural Resources, Agriculture, Irrigation and Forestry, 
George M. Rommel, B.S., Bureau of Animal industry. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
IV. Education, P, P. Claxtcn, LL.B., Bureau of Education, Washington, D, C. 
V. Engineering, W. H. Bixby, Brig. General U.S.A., Retired, Washington, D. C. 
VI, International Law, Public Law, and Jurisprudence, James Brown Scott, A.M., 
J.U.D., LL.D., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washing- 
ton, D« C, 
VII. Mining and Metallurgy, Economic Geology, and Applied Chemistry, Hermen 
Jennings, C.E., Washington, D. C. 
VIII. Public Health and Medical Science, Wrn. C. Gorgas, M.D., Sc.D. , Surgeon 
General U.S.A., Washington, D. C. 
IX, Transportation, Commerce, Finance, and Taxation, L. S. Rowe, Ph.D., 
President, American Academy of Political and 'Social Science, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
Each Section is divided further into Sub-Sections. There are forty- 
five of che latter in all, each with a special committee and program. The 
deliberations of the Congress will be based according to the subject-matter 
wj be discussed in the various Sub-Sections. There will be general sessions 
of the congress as a whole. Each Section will have one or more general ses- 
sions. Tne various Sub-Sections of the Congress may arrange for joint ses- 
sions, There will also be joint sessions bety/een certain Sections and Sub- 
Sections of the Congress and certain national Associations meeting in Washing- 
ton at the time of the Congress, 
