REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 4 1 



UST OF SUBSTITUTES. 



Corpl. H. H. Hendricks. Corpl. M. Wiegand. 



Corpl. M. Protas. Corpl. R. E. Meeds. 



Corpl. M. Wolfe. Corpl. R. Turoff. 



Corpl. T. A. Tekofsky. Corpl. J. M. England. 



Corpl. P. Bickford. Corpl. E. G. Smith. 

 Corpl. J. G. Sharf. 



The official headquarters of the scientific congress were established at 

 the time of the congress in the New Willard Hotel. The several sections 

 had, in addition, sectional headquarters as follows: 



Section I. New National Museum. 



Section II. Carnegie Institution. 



Section III. Raleigh Hotel. 



Section IV. New Willard Hotel. 



Section V. Raleigh Hotel. 



Section VI. Shoreham Hotel. 



Section VII. Raleigh Hotel. 



Section VIII. The New Ebbitt Hotel. 



Section IX. New Willard Hotel. 

 The members of the congress had at their disposal private postal, 

 express, banking, telegram, and telephone service at the official head- 

 quarters. 



The editorial office of the Daily Bulletin, in charge of Mr. Noel; the 

 information bureau, in charge of Mr. Hutterly; the bureau of registra- 

 tion of delegates from the United States, in charge of Mrs. Emma Couch 

 and Miss Mary Ward, were located in the red room. The registration 

 of delegates from Latin America, in charge of Mr. Perez-Verdia, took 

 place in the office of the secretary general and the assistant secretary 

 general in the blue room. The quarters of the executive committee of 

 organization, the executive committee of the congress, and the official 

 delegation of the United States were established on the first floor. On 

 this floor in adjoining rooms were also located the offices of the organ- 

 izing secretary of the Women's Auxiliary Conference, the assistant secre- 

 taries in charge of social entertainment and reception of Latin American 

 delegates and other bureaus. 



LATIN AMERICAN PARTICIPATION. 



The postponement of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, 

 necessary on the part of the United States, created naturally some 

 embarrassment to the Latin American countries in the matter of the 



