THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 



PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress, held in the city of 

 Washington under the auspices of the Government of the United States 

 with the official sanction and direction of the Department of State, 

 convened in solemn plenary session in Memorial Continental Hall Monday, 

 December 27, 1915, at 10.30 a. m. The plenary session of adjournment 

 was held in the same place Saturday morning, January 8, 1916, at 11 

 o'clock. 



The Congress of the United States appropriated money for the conduct 

 of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, as follows: 



1. Diplomatic and Consular appropriation act for 1915. $35, 000 



2. Diplomatic and Consular appropriation act for 1916 15, 000 



3. Public Resolution No. 3 — Sixty-fourth Congress (urgent deficiency bill), 



approved Dec. 17, 1915 ; . 35,000 



Acting on behalf of, and in cooperation with, the permanent executive 

 committee of organization, the executive officers of that committee, the 

 secretary general and the assistant secretary general, organized the 

 congress, arranged and carried out its program, social and deliberative, 

 published the reports of the reporter general and the secretary general 

 of the congress, and assisted in the publication of the report of the 

 Women's Auxiliary Conference. 



The report of the reporter general, Dr. James Brown Scott, is called 

 the Final Act and Interpretative Commentary Thereon, with appendices. 

 These seven appendices contain the following chapters : 



1. Organization and rules. 



2 . Topics for Pan American conferences. 



3. The three plenary sessions. 



4. Program of the nine sections of the congress. 



5. List of learned societies, educational institutions, private organizations, and 



governmental bureaus. 



6. List of the members of the executive committee and other committees of 



organization, and the cooperating committees in Republics other than the 

 United States. 



7. List of the honorary members, members of societies, institutions, and com- 



mittees, and writers of papers. 



This report has been printed in two editions, in English and in Span- 

 ish, at the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Eight 



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