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Therefore, the fundamental idea pervading the three projects that are 

 to be submitted to the congress at its next general session should b 

 agreeable to all of the delegates. Lack of time only has prevented their 

 presentation, unanimously signed by all. These three projects seek to 

 complement, in the intellectual field, the work of the existing Pan 

 American Union by organizing, as sections of that union, three subsidiary 

 unions, viz, a university union, a library union, and an archaeological 

 union. The first proposes to confederate all the universities of this con- 

 tinent for the better development of their organizations and tendencies, 

 the facilitation of interchange of professors and students, and to permit 

 the meeting of both in periodical assemblies. The second has for its 

 object to place within reach of the isolated student the common treasures 

 collected in all the libraries of the continent by recommending to those 

 institutions the service of exchange of publications and the preparation 

 of bibliographical lists of intellectual productions, to the end that any 

 person may know and obtain such productions as may appear in other 

 sections of America. The third proposes to conserve the pre-Columbian 

 remains of the ancient civilizations of the peoples that inhabited this 

 continent before its discovery and combine the activities of the ethno- 

 logical museums in order to facilitate the study of this mysterious science. 



It will be seen, then, that these projects, which it is sought to have 

 the present Pan American Union carry into effect as subsidiaries thereof, 

 will tend to advance the solidarity of all the nations of America and to 

 produce in all very real benefits. So that, if such projects should prosper, 

 this congress will have given life to new institutions of a permanent char- 

 acter and of indubitable utility. 



Whether on this account or on the more strictly technical ground taken 

 in the papers designated in the program, the Argentine delegation, ani- 

 mated by the most ample sentiments of American confraternity, and 

 sensible of our imperishable historical traditions, takes part in the delib- 

 erations of the congress imbued with the highest desire for its success. 

 There is no doubt that this will be a brilliant one and that the gen- 

 erosity and unstinted hospitality extended to us at this time by this 

 great country will contribute to facilitate that result and to tighten the 

 bonds of friendship and sympathy between the nations and the inhab- 

 itants of America. 



Such is the message that my country sends on this portentious occasion. 



