26 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 



American Scientific Congress to arrange in every way possible to carry 

 the members of the association to Washington, to receive them in a 

 body and to emphasize during the second week of the congress, January 

 3 to 8, such parts of the program of the latter as will offer the greatest 

 interest to the members of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



On behalf of the executive committee, 

 Faithfully yours, 



Glen Levin Swiggett, 



Acting Secretary General. 



President and Officers of the American Association 

 FOR THE Advancement of Science. 

 (Care of the Permanent Secretary, Dr. L. O. Howard of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D. C.) 



Monday night, January the 3d, was selected by the permanent secretary 

 of the association as the date of meeting. The members of the congress 

 met with the association as guests of the latter, 8 p. m., in Memorial 

 Continental Hall. Dr. Robert S. Woodward, president of Carnegie Insti- 

 tute and past president of the association, presided on this occasion. 

 The secretary general of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress 

 made a short address of welcome on behalf of the congress. He empha- 

 sized the high character of the class of scholars and scientists from Latin 

 America who were attending the congress, and said that intellectual Pan 

 Americanism was necessary to promote political Pan Americanism. 



The secretary general was followed by Dr. Ernesto Nelson, inspector 

 general of education of the Argentine Republic, and member of the 

 Argentina delegation to the congress, who made a brief address on behalf 

 of the Latin American delegates. He pointed out what Argentina and 

 other Latin American countries were doing for astronomy. 



The president of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, Dr. William M. Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory and 

 member of the official delegation of the United States, delivered a special 

 presidential address in honor of the congress on the Evolution of the 

 Stars. Two sessions were further held by the association Tuesday, Jan- 

 uary 4, in the New National Museum. The following program was 

 given : 



10 A. M. 



C. H. EigEnmann : Some Phases of the Origin and Evolution of the South 



American Fresh-Water Fishes. 

 J. N. Rose: Botanical Explorations in South America. 



