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scientific activities where they have not hitherto made themselves 

 known and felt. An intellectual union of this kind would be the federa- 

 tion of national societies, associations, or organizations in the capitals 

 of the different American Republics and would be, as it were, their great 

 central scientific and intellectual clearing house. 



The proposers of this resolution were aware of the difficulties and ob- 

 stacles standing in the way of its realization, but, believing in the services 

 that it would render not to one but to all of the American Republics, they 

 laid it before the Congress for its approval, and this approval was freely 

 and ungrudgingly given. They recognized the wisdom of the motto that 

 would make haste slowly. They were unwilling to recommend that 

 other projects might be merged in theirs before the Intellectual Union has 

 shown its possibilities and had demonstrated its success. They therefore 

 recommended that a beginning should be made with the three projects 

 of the University Union, the Library Union, and of the Archaeological 

 Union, or with some other branches of science, and that from the expe- 

 rience had upon this smaller scale such confidence might be generated 

 in the usefulness and services which the Intellectual Union could render 

 as to include within its scope all of the sciences discussed in the sec- 

 tions of the present Congress and to make of it their accredited agent. 



The general report leaves it as the Congress itself left it, with its spe- 

 cial recommendation and with the assurance that, if established, it 

 would "lay broad and deep the true foundations of intellectual Pan 

 Americanism." The general report, however, calls attention in this con- 

 nection to the concluding article of the Final Act, which requests the 

 Government of the United States to transmit the resolutions and recom- 

 mendations contained in the Final Act to the participating Governments 

 and the suggestion that the Governments specially interested in any one 

 of the resolutions or recommendations should take the initiative of car- 

 rying the same into effect, in the full consciousness that if the project 

 for the establishment of an intellectual Pan American Union commends 

 itself to any one Government or to private initiative the Intellectual Union 

 will cease to be a project in becoming a beneficent institution. 



48. The Second Pan American Scientific Congress, upon the 

 motion of the delegation of Chile, unanimously resolves that 

 The Third Pan American Scientific Congress shall meet in the city 

 of Lima in connection with the celebration of the anniversary 

 of the independence of Peru, in 1921, and appoints for that 

 purpose the following gentlemen : Messrs. Dr. JAVIER PRADO 

 Y UGARTECHE, rector of the University of San Marcos, Lima ; 



