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Thereupon the president of the Congress adjourned the Inaugural 

 Plenary Session of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress in the 

 following words: • , 



"The inauguration of the congress has been successfully accom- 

 plished. In congratulating the members of the congress for this 

 happy beginning, I have the honor to announce that we are ad- 

 journed in general session. We will now start the work of the 

 different sections." 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CONGRESS. 



Pursuant to a practice that is now an established precedent of these 

 scientific congresses, the labors of the executive committee of organiza- 

 tion were transferred shortly after the formal opening of the congress to 

 the executive committee of the congress, the members of which were duly 

 and officially appointed. This committee served during the sessions of the 

 congress with the assistance of the older committee, to which on ad- 

 journment it resigned its functions. The members of the executive 

 committee of the congress, with the addition of His Excellency Sr. 

 Eduardo Suarez Mujica, president of the congress; John Barrett, secre- 

 tary general; James Brown Scott, reporter general; Glen Levin Swig- 

 gett, assistant secretary general; and Henry Ralph Ringe, recording 

 secretary, were — 



Argentina, Ernesto Quesada. 



Bolivia, Alberto Gutie;rrez. 



Brazil, Domicio da Gama. 



Chile, Julio Philippi. 



Colombia, Carlos Cuervo MArquez. 



Costa Rica, Eduardo J. Pinto. 



Cuba, Carlos Manuel de C^spedes. 



Dominican Republic, Carlos Armando Perdomo. 



Ecuador, Victor Manuel Penaherrera. 



Guatemala, Joaquin Mi^ndez. 



Haiti, Charles Mathon. 



Honduras, Carlos Alberto Ucle;s. 



Mexico, Manuel Gamio. 



Nicaragua, Damaso Rivas. 



Panama, Eusebio Morales. 



Paraguay, Eusebio Ayala. 



Peru, Alejandro Deustua. 



Salvador, Rafael Zaldivar, 



