RBPORT OP The secretary GENERAt. 43 



secretary general. The governing board of the Pan American Union has 

 signally complimented the congress by tendering the use of its handsome 

 building for the offices and sessions of the congress. 



This Government has perfected its local organization. Proceeding 

 under the direction of the executive committee, in cooperation with the 

 secretary general, a committee has been designated to invite preparation 

 of papers on topics of special interest and pertinent to the subject 

 matter of the nine program sections. 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. 

 Following my cablegram of instructions of the 17th instant that it is 

 most expedient that a similar committee, to act as a cooperating commit- 

 tee with the executive committee of the United States, be appointed at 

 once in the several participating countries, this communicaiton is sent 

 to you with the request that you urge the Government to which* you are 

 accredited to appoint, without delay, such an executive or cooperating 

 committee, if it has not already done so. 



The members of this committee should then be immediately informed 

 of the urgent necessity that steps be taken at once to see that their 

 Government and country are properly represented at the congress by 

 contributed papers and visiting delegates. It is hoped further that these 

 committees of the several countries will fully cooperate with the execu- 

 tive committee and the secretary general of the congress at Washington 

 in preparing a list of persons to be invited to submit papers and in making 

 sure that their Government and country are adequately represented at 

 the congress by persons chosen from among its leading scientific organiza- 

 tions, educational institutions, and learned societies. 

 The following persons will be members of the congress: 



I. The official delegates of the Governments represented. 

 II. The representatives of the universities, institutions, societies 

 and scientific bodies of the countries represented. 



