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and the President transmitted the invitation to Congress, accompanied by a 
commendatory message.* In due course the invitation was officially accepted 
and a liberal sum appropriated for the purposes of the congress. The com- 
mittee of organization also extended invitations, through the Department of 
State at Washington, to a number of universities and other institutions and 
societies. AS a result a large delegation was accredited to the congress. The 
membership of the delegation and the institutions represented are as follows: 
Government delegates. 
L. S. Rowe, University of Pennsylvania. 
Paul 8. Reinsch, University of Wisconsin. 
Hiram Bingham, Yale University. 
A. C. Coolidge; Harvard University. 
and should embrace this opportunity for cooperation in scientific research with 
the representatives of the other American republics. It is worthy of con- 
sideration that, in addition to the purely scientific interests to be subserved by 
such a congress and in addition to the advantages arising from an interchange 
of thought and the intercourse of the scientific men of the American countries 
and the good understanding and friendly relations which will be promoted, 
there are many specific relations arising from the very close intercourse be- 
tween the United States and many Latin-American countries, incident to our 
expanding trade, our extending investments, and the construction of the 
Panama Canal, which make a common understanding and free exchange of 
opinion upon scientific subjects of great practical importance. 
To make our representation possible I have the honor to recommend that the 
Congress be asked to appropriate the sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as 
may be necessary, to enable the United States to send a number of delegates 
corresponding to the number of sections into which the congress is to be di- 
vided, together with a secretary and disbursing officer, and to pay other neces- 
sary expenses. 
Inasmuch as it is desired that all communications or scientific works to be 
presented to the congress be received before September 30, it is much to be 
hoped that provision for the participation of this government may be made at 
an early date and that the appropriation be made immediately available. 
Respectfully submitted. 
Exinvu Root. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 
Washington, December 19, 1907. 
“To the Senate and House of Representatives: 
I transmit herewith for the consideration of the respective Houses of the 
Congress a report of the Secretary of State representing the appropriateness 
of early action in order that in response to the invitation of the Government 
of Chile the Government of the United States may be enabled fittingly to be 
represented at the First Pan-American Scientific Congress, to be held at San- 
tiago, Chile, the first ten days of December, 1908. 
The recommendations of this report have my hearty approval, and I hope that 
the Congress will see fit to make timely provision to enable the Government to 
respond appropriately to the invitation of the Government of Chile in the 
Sending of delegates to a congress which can not fail to be of great interest 
and importance to the governments and peoples of all the American republics. 
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 
THE WuitEe House, December 21, 1907. 
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