lO REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 



thousand copies of the English edition have been printed, 2,000 of which 

 were ordered for private distribution by the Carnegie Endowment for 

 International Peace. Three thousand copies of the Spanish edition have 

 been printed. A copy of the Final Act has been mailed in the appro- 

 priate language to all high officials of Government, to all members of 

 the congress, and to the libraries of the leading commercial, learned, and 

 scientific organizations and educational institutions in the 21 participat- 

 ing countries. The report of the Women*s Auxiliary Conference, pre- 

 pared by the organizing secretary, Mrs. Glen Levin Swiggett, has been 

 likewise printed in two editions, English and Spanish, and is being 

 distributed throughout the different countries of the Pan American 

 Union by an international committee that is now being appointed for 

 that purpose. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress had its origin in a series 

 of anterior scientific congressies held in South America. The first of 

 these, called the First Latin American Scientific Congress, was held in 

 Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 10-20, 1898, in commemoration of the 

 silver jubilee of the Argentine Scientific Congress. The second and 

 third were held, respectively, in Montevideo, March 20-31, 1901, and 

 Rio de Janeiro, August 6-16, 1905. Through the generous action of 

 the executive committee of organization of the Fourth Latin American 

 Scientific Congress, held in Santiago de Chile, December 25, 1908, to 

 January 5, 1909, the Government of the United States was invited to 

 participate and the name of the congress was changed to the First Pan 

 American Scientific Congress. The Government of the United States 

 accepted this invitation and named the following official delegate^: 



Leo S. Rowe, Chairman. Wiluam H. Holmes. 



Paul S. Reinsch, \'icc Chainnan. Bernard Moses. 



Hiram Bingha?». George M. Rommel. 



Archibald Cary Coolidge. William R. Shepherd. 



William C. Gorgas. W. B. Smith. 



Secretaries : 

 Clarence L. Hay. 

 Charles G. Neumann. 

 Huntington Smith. 



The official report of this delegation was presented to the Secretary of 

 State, April 23, 1909. This report was printed at the Government 

 Printing Office, Washington, D. C, 1909, under the title Report of the 

 Delegates of the United States to the Pan American Scientific Congress 

 held at Santiago, Chile. 



