88 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
Col. William C. Gorgas, U. S. Army. 
W. H. Holmes, Smithsonian Institution. 
Bernard Moses, University of California. 
George M. Rommel, Bureau of Animal Industry. 
W. R. Shepherd, Columbia University. 
W. B. Smith, Tulane University. 
University and society delegates. 
C. H. Hall, University of Minnesota. 
Bernard Moses, University of California. 
Albert A. Michelson, University of Chicago. 
J. Lawrence Laughlin, University of Chicago. 
W. R. Shepherd, Columbia University. 
Thomas Barbour, Harvard University. 
A. C. Coolidge, Harvard University. 
J. B. Woodworth, Harvard University. 
Adolph Hempel, University of Illinois. 
W. H. Holmes, George Washington University. 
Orville A. Derby, Cornell University. 
H. D. Curtis, University of Michigan. 
W. F. Rice, Northwestern University. 
L. 8S. Rowe, University of Pennsylvania. 
Webster E. Browning, Princeton University. 
William B. Smith, Tulane University. 
Paul S. Reinsch, University of Wisconsin. 
Hiram Bingham, Yale University. 
D. EF. Salas, National Education Association. 
In June, 1908, meetings of the government delegates were held at the State 
Department, Washington, under the tutelage of Secretary Root, who conveyed 
to them such instructions as were deemed necessary. Arrangements were made 
for the preparation and translation of papers dealing with appropriate subjects 
for presentation at the congress, and for the disposal of the sum allotted by the 
Department for the purposes of the congress. The organization of the delega- 
tion was completed by the selection of Dr. L. S. Rowe as chairman and Prof. 
Paul 8. Reinsch as vice-chairman. 
Under the guidance of Doctor Rowe a number of the delegates assembled in 
Buenos Aires early in December, where they were the recipients of the hospi- 
tality af the President of the Republic and the members of his cabinet, and of 
the ministers of the United States and Chile. Visits were made to numerous 
institutions of learning, hospitals, municipal buildings, parks, etc., and the visit 
to the University of La Plata was signalized by an exceptionally cordial inter- 
change of courtesies. On December 10 the party crossed the Andes and estab- 
lished headquarters in the Hotel Oddo in Santiago. Here, before and during the 
sittings of the congress, the delegation held frequent meetings to plan and dis- 
cuss their work in the congress. Meantime other delegations, representing seven 
North American and Central American and nine South American republics, were 
on hand; and the meeting for the selection of officers for the congress was held 
at the University of Chile on December 24.4 It is a noteworthy fact that the 
@ The result was as follows: President, Enrique R. de Lisboa, Brazilian minis- 
ter; vice-presidents, Lorenzo Anadon, Argentine minister; Federico Surveila S. 
Quash, delegate from Uruguay, and Matias Manzanilla, delegate from Peru; 
secretaries, Emilio Fernandez, delegate from Bolivia; Melchior Lazo de la Vega, 
delegate from Panama; and Enrique Martinez Sobral, delegate from Mexico. 
