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III. Such persons in the countries participating in the congress 

 as may be invited by the executive committee with the 

 approval of the Governments represented and their cooper- 

 ating committees. 

 There will be forwarded to you immediately copies of the preliminary 

 program of the congress in EngHsh and Spanish (or, in the case of Brazil, 

 English and Portuguese), which you are requested to transmit to the 

 proper persons. As soon as a special mailing list of individuals can be 

 prepared for the different countries, copies of this program will be for- 

 warded directly to those individuals. You will cable the names and 

 addresses of the members of the local cooperating committee as soon as 

 they shall have been appointed by the Government to which you are 

 accredited. Such committees are requested, moreover, to communicate 

 directly with the secretary general of the Pan American Scientific Con- 

 gress at the offices of the congress, in the building of the Pan American 

 Union, Washington, D. C. If it is found desirable to communicate with 

 the secretary general by cable, the code address is "Pau, Washington." 

 I am, gentlemen. 



Your obedient servant, 



W. J. Bryan. 



LATIN AMERICAN REPRESENTATION. 



From, the date of this letter to December 27, the opening of the 

 congress, the chairman ex officio of the executive committee, Hon. 

 William Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State, representing the Depart- 

 ment of State, and the executive officers of the permanent executive 

 committee of organization were unremitting in their efforts to secure 

 a proper representation at the congress, not only from the United States, 

 but from the Latin American countries in particular. The representation 

 from the Latin American countries was greatly increased through the 

 generous action of the executive officers of the divisions of economics 

 and history, education and intercourse, and international law of the 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in requesting the endow- 

 ment to invite as its guests to the city of Washington at the time of the 

 congress distinguished Latin Americans, three from each country to rep- 

 resent each of the three divisions of the endowment. Through this gen- 

 erously extended hospitality on the part of the Carnegie Endowment, the 

 Latin American representation exceeded even the highest hopes of the 

 executive committee of organization. While the names of all delegates 

 are printed in the general alphabetical list of the Final Act report, it has 



