Evening star., 1924-09-22
SCIENCE CONGRESS
PLANS TAKE SHAPE
Pan-A meriCan Scientific
Leaders to Convene in
Peru in December.

With the appointment of the official
delegation Of the Government of
the United States, plans for the par
ticipation of this country In the
third Pan American Scientihc Con-
2ress. which will convene at Lima
Peru, on December 90 next, are tax
ing definite shape. The official dele
cation. recently announced by the
pepa rtment of State. will be headed
hy Or. l.. =. Rowe, president of the
American Academy of Political and
Social Science. The other members
at the delegation are Prof. Marshall
H. SavilIe of the Heye Foundation.
New York city; DR.. Albert Abraham
Nicholson, president of the National
Academy of Sciences: DR.. Albert
Sauveur of Harvard University, Mr..
y. W. Whitney, chairman of the
American Engineering Standards
Committee: pr. John D. Long. assist
ant surgeon general of the United
States Public Health Service; DIR.
Vernon Kellogg, secretary of the Ma
tional Research Council; Dr. James
IirUWn Scott, president of the Ameri-
IAN Institute of International Law;
Dr- Samuel NJ. Lindsay. professor of
social legislation at Columbia Uni
NerSity, and Or. Rufus Il. Won Klein
Smid, president Of the University OF
southern California.
In addition TO this official repre-
sentation. the United States will also
he represented at the congress by "a
number of unofficial delegates. repre-
II %tntatiVeS of scientific organiZat tioES
and educa ational institutions. Among
tn" representative So appointed are
I,r. Robert G. Murphy of the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History, Or.
Nifred {. Parkinson and Or. Gra-
II fl,. Ittss
tuition of Washington. Walter :. Pen
utld of the American Bar Association.
br Frank Lincoln stevens of the
American Association for the Ad-
vanccmrnt OF Science, Adrian Win
&ton NeIlner Of the Geographical
society of Philadelphia, Eaye r. Platt
nf the American Geographical Society
aud Dr. Guillcrmo 4. Sherwen OF
Georgetown University. 1t is also eX-
p@Cted that the American historical
Association. the American Economic
Association and other institutions
will be represented at the congress.
Discussion Limited.
~ the two scientific congresses
that have been held. the first met at
Santiago. Chile, in 1908, and the sec
ond at Washington in l"lo-lo. Inc
experience acquired during the carrier
conferences demonstrated the neces-
sity of limiting the range of discus
sion in order to bring to bear upon
concrete scientific problems the accu-
muIated experience of the countries
rrpreSented. and also showed the
value of exchanging Information on
distinctiNely American problems IN
the fields Of public and private law,
ethnology, archa eology, medicine ana
sanitation, physical and social Sc
enccs. etc. The third congress VIII
follow rather closely the program OF
the preceding meetings. The pro-
gram is divided into nine sections, as
follows: History and anthropoloGy
phy steal and mathematical science;
mining, metallurgy. geology and ap-
pIied chemistry: engineering, medl-
cine biology. agriculture and ZOO
technics; private, public and interna-
tional law; economies and sociology;
education.
The delegates to the congress Will
contribute papers on the various
branches Of science included in the
program and in addition leaders of
scientific thought in the United States
who are unable to attend in person
have been asked to prepare papers
for submis isSion to the congress. 1t
is expected that the interchange of
views and the contacts established at
Lima by the scientific leaders OF the
American republics. will contribute
greatly to the development of closer
cultural and intellectual reations be-
tween the countries of the Amerncan
continent.