14 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 



John Barrett, Director General, Pan American Union. 



W. H. BixBY, Brigadier General, United States Army, retired. 



Philander P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education. 



William C. Gorgas, Surgeon General, United States Army. 



William H. Holmes, Head Curator National Museum, Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Hennen Jennings, former President, Ivondon Institution of Mining 

 and Metallurgy. 



George M. Rommel, Chief, Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. 



h. S. RowE, President, American Academy of Political and Social 

 Science. 



Robert S. Woodward, President, Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington. 



Organization Officers. 



John Barrett, Director General of the Pan American Union, 



Secretary General. 

 Glen Levin Swiggett, Assistant Secretary General. 



The honorable Secretary of State sent, on July lo, 1914, the following 

 communication to the diplomatic corps of Latin America in Washing- 

 ton, informing the ambassadors and ministers of these republics of the 

 invitation to participate in the congress on the part of their governments 

 that had been extended through chiefs of missions of the United States 

 in their respective countries: 



Department op State, 

 Washington, July 10, 1914. 



Sir: The First Pan American Scientific Congress, which held its ses- 

 sions at Santiago, Chile, in 1908-9, designated the city of Washington as 

 the place of meeting for the second congress. This unsolicited and volun- 

 tary action of the first congress, evidencing, as it did, on the part of its 

 members a desire to cultivate closer intellectual and cultural relations 

 with the United States, gave to the Government of the United States 

 intense gratification ; and the scientific gentlemen who attended the first 

 congress as delegates of the Government of the United States, greatly 

 impressed with the cordial reception and hospitable treatment that had 

 been accorded to them at Santiago, were glad to interest themselves in 

 arranging for the second congress. These gentlemen having determined 

 that an appropriate time for the holding of this congress would be in the 

 month of October, 191 5, the Congress of the United States, in the diplo- 

 matic and consular appropriation act approved June 30, 1914, has been 



