CONTENTS. 



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Introductory letter to the Secretary of State 3 



Preliminary organization 9 



Draft of report of the provisional committee appointed by the First Pan Amer- 

 ican Scientific Congress 15 



The sections and general program 17 



Letters of appointment and invitations • 19 



American Association for the Advancement of Science 24 



The Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists 27 



American Institute of International Law 27 



Promotion of interest in Congress 28 



Details of the organization '. 34 



Latin American participation 41 



Latin American representation 44 



Reception of delegates 45 



Inaugural plenary session 48 



Pan American hymn 49 



Address of welcome by the Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President of 



the United States 51 



Address of welcome by the Hon. Robert Lansing, Secretary of State 55 



Address of the president of the congress, his excellency the ambassador of 



Chile, Sr. D. Eduardo Suarez Mujica 59 



Responses by the chairmen of the official delegations: 



Argentina ■ 64 



Bolivia 67 



Brazil 68 



Chile . 68 



Colombia •. 69 



Costa Rica 70 



Cuba 71 



Dominican Republic 73 



(Message from His Excellency the President of the United States). ... 74 



Ecuador 74 



Guatemala. 76 



Haiti 77 



Honduras 77 



Nicaragua 79 



Paraguay 82 



Peru 83 



vSalvador 84 



Uruguay 85 



Venezuela 87 



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