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the cordial good wishes of my country and its hope that the results of 

 your labors may fulfill the noble ideals which inspired the meeting of so 

 brilliant an assemblage. 



Jose Pardo, President of Peru. 



SAN SALVADOR. 



San Sai^vador. 

 Messrs. Suarez Mujica and Barrett, 



Washington, D. C: 

 I thank you for your important message and trust sincerely that 

 congress will be fruitful in good for nations of this continent. 



President Mei^Endez. 

 the united states. 



Hot Springs, Va., December 27, 191 5. 

 Hon. John Barrett, 



Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C: 

 Please present my warmest greetings to the delegates to the Pan 

 American Scientific Congress and extend to them on my behalf a most 

 cordial welcome. It seems to me to be of the happiest omen that the 

 attendance upon this congress should be so large and the interest in its 

 proceedings so great. I hope that the greatest success will attend every 

 activity of the congress and that the intimate intercourse of thought 

 which it produces will bind America still closer together throughout both 

 continents alike in sympathy and in purpose. 



WooDRow Wilson. 



VENEZUELA. 



Caracas, Venezuela, December 28, 1913. 

 Secretary General, 



Second Pan American Scientific Congress, 



Washington, D. C: 

 I rejoice in inauguration of most important assembly and appreciate 

 greetings, congratulating Hon. Mr. Barrett for success and his excellency 

 Mr. Sudrez for appointment accepted. 



V. Marquez Bustillos, 



Provisional President. 



Secretary General Barrett then expressed the profound regrets of Assist- 

 ant Secretary General Swiggett and of Dr. Leo S. Rowe, member of the 

 official delegation of the United States and chairman of the section on trans- 

 portation, commerce, finance, and taxation, that illness prevented them 

 from assisting in this final plenary session and their keen satisfaction in 



