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were in attendance at the congress, and also to prepare the way for greater 

 interest among the women of all the American countries in Pan Ameri- 

 can matters. Copies of this can also be obtained from the Director 

 General of the Pan American Union or from the executive secretary of 

 the Women's Auxiliary Committee, Mrs. Glen Levin Swiggett. 



Mrs. Charles R. Crane generously contributed $2,000, and Mrs. J. C. 

 Breckenridge $100 for expenses connected with the Women's Auxiliary 

 Conference, which could not be covered by the official appropriation. 



It is now my hope that the Women's Auxiliary Conference may be 

 enlarged into a more important gathering for the Lima congress in 1921. 

 There is some suggestion that then there might be held there a real Pan 

 American conference of women, which would undoubtedly be of great 

 cooperative benefit in making the Second Pan American Scientific Con- 

 gress a notable occasion in the history of Pan Americanism. 



Finally, I feel it my duty to urge preparation by the United States 

 Government, in cooperation with the scientists, educators, scholars, and 

 engineers of the United States, for the Third Pan American Scientific 

 Congress, which will be held in Lima, the capital of Peru, in 192 1. In 

 view of the large number of Latin Americans who came to the United 

 States for the Washington congress, there should be a large official and 

 unofficial delegation from the United States at Lima. The papers pre- 

 sented there from the United vStates, moreover, should represent the very 

 best thought of the day and be a credit to this land. The Government 

 and people of the United States can not show too much interest in that 

 congress in return for the interest shown by Latin America in the last 

 congress," and in order to promote practical Pan Americanism. 



The total expense of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress to 

 the United States Government was approximately $127,000, of which a 

 summarized statement is given in the concluding part of the following 

 report. Considering the extraordinary attendance, not only from Latin 

 America but from the United States, the success of every feature of the 

 congress, and the good results for Pan Americanism which have resulted, 

 this sum can certainly be considered as having been most advantageously 

 utilized. 



In the Appendix of the Report of the Secretary General will be found 

 three most interesting records. These give a list of the members of the 

 congress from the Latin American countries, a list of all the papers read 

 or submitted to the congress, classified alphabetically according to sec- 

 tions, and an alphabetical list of all the societies which participated or 

 sent delegates. The alphabetical list of delegates is not given because it 

 is included in the "Final Act." 



