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On the adjournment of the Chilean congress in 1908, certain visiting 

 delegates from the United States were designated to act as a preliminary 

 executive committee of the Second Pan American Congress. The 

 executive committee now comprises twelve men, with the Hon. William 

 Phillips, Third Assistant Secretary of State, as ex officio chairman. 

 The organization officers of the congress consist of a secretary general 

 and an assistant secretary general. Certain members of the executive 

 committee have been designated to act as chairmen of the nine program 

 sections of the congress. These sections are as follows : 

 I. Anthropology. 

 II. Astronomy, meteorology, and seismology. 



III. Conservation of natural resources, agriculture, irrigation, 



and forestry. 



IV. Education. 

 V. Engineering. 



VI. International law, public law, and jurisprudence. 

 VII. Mining and metallurgy, economic geology, and applied 



chemistry. 

 VIII. Public health and medical science. 

 IX. Transportation, commerce, finance, and taxation. 

 In cooperation with the secretary general the organization of these 

 sections is now being perfected in the participating countries, and ar- 

 rangements are being made for proper representation at the congress. 



In conclusion, I beg to state that this brief presentation as to the nature 

 and importance of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress is made 

 to you in the belief that so honored a body as the National Academy of 

 Sciences should be early apprised in this formal way of this great gather- 

 ing of scientists, sincerely trusting that your cooperation as a body and 

 as individuals will be given whenever requested by those who are duly 

 authorized to request the same. 



Glen Levin Swiggett, 

 Assistant Secretary General. 



President, officers, and members of the Am-erican Institute of Criminal Law 

 and Criminology and of the American Bar Association. 

 Gentlemen : I am permitted, through the courtesy of the secretary of 

 the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, to convey to 

 your distinguished associations the greetings of the Second Pan American 

 Scientific Congress, which will convene in Washington next December, 

 begirming its sessions Monday, December 27, 191 5, and concluding the 

 same Saturday, January 8, 191 6. 



