12 report of the secretary general,. 



Department of State, 



Washington, May 23, ipii. 

 To the Diplomatic Officers of the United States in Latin America. 



Gentlemen: At its session of January 4, 1909, the Pan American 

 Scientific Congress at Santiago, Chile, designated the city of Washington 

 as the next place of meeting and recommended that the meeting be held 

 during the year 191 2. 



The American managers of the proposed congress at Washington have 

 requested this department to inform the Governments of Latin America in 

 their behalf that it has not been found possible to make suitable arrange- 

 ments for the holding of the congress in Washington in 191 2, and that 

 the time of meeting has consequently been postponed until the year 

 1914. 



You may inform the Government to which you are accredited in the 

 above sense. 



T am, gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant, 



P. C. Knox. 



It became necessary in the course of arrangements to postpone again 

 the opening of the congress to December 27, 1915, at which time the Con- 

 gress convened in Washington, as has been stated. In accordance with 

 the wishes of the provisional committee on organization expressed at the 

 time of its appointment by the congress in Santiago, the Secretary of 

 State of the United States appointed, June 17, 191 4, a permanent execu- 

 tive committee of organization in the United States. A copy of the 

 official letter of appointment follows: 



APPOINTMENT AS MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Department of State, 



Washington, June 17, 1914. 

 Sir: Being aware of your interest in the cultivation of closer relations 

 between the United States and the Latin American Republics, it gives 

 me pleasure to inform you that I shall be glad to have you serve on an 

 executive committee of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, 

 which is to meet in Washington in October, 191 5. This committee is 

 purely advisory in character and is created for the purpose of formulating 

 preliminary plans for the congress, to be submitted to the Department of 

 State before they are communicated to the various nations interested in 

 the congress. 



