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the success of the congress. The secretary general, by direction of the 

 executive committee on the part of the United States, expressed gratitude 

 to the Daughters of the American Revolution for their courtesy in per- 

 mitting the use of Continental Memorial Hall for the general and special 

 sessions of the congress. He further expressed the gratitude of the same 

 committee to Mrs. Robert I^ansing, wife of the Secretary of State of the 

 United States, and Mrs. Glen Levin Swiggett, wife of the assistant sec- 

 retary general, and the other ladies cooperating with them, for the effi- 

 cient work and deep interest they had shown in the Women's Auxiliary 

 Conference. The announcement was then made that the special train 

 chartered to carry the delegates and members of their families on a tour 

 to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Princeton, New York, New Haven, and Boston 

 would depart Monday morning, January 10, leaving the Union Station 

 over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad promptly at lo o'clock. 



FINAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONGRESS. 



His excellency the Chilean ambassador was greeted with great applause 

 when he arose to deliver, as the presiding officer, the concluding address 

 of this solemn and final plenary session of the Second Pan American 

 Scientific Congress. The address, given in Spanish, was translated 

 immediately into English by Dr. Luis Baralt, a delegate of Cuba, who 

 kindly acted as interpreter by request of the president of the congress. 

 The address of the president of the congress follows : 



Excellency, Messrs. Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen : We have reached, 

 without great obstacles, the end of our journey. We have successfully 

 carried out the work that could reasonably have been expected of con- 

 gresses, such as ours, which are not designed to undertake the research 

 and discovery of technical solutions, but rather to quicken the devel- 

 opment of the scientific spirit and to facilitate the drawing together 

 of the scholars in the different nations. The interesting series of motions 

 that have been carried — as reported just now — by the sections and subsec- 

 tions into which the congress has been divided, shows as a whole that 

 over its deliberations there has prevailed the well-conceived purpose of 

 tracing common courses toward common ends for the future labors of 

 the intellectual centers in the continent, and it has further shown that, 

 thereby, greater solidarity and consequently greater efficiency have been 

 secured for the intellectual and moral progress of the New World. 



This alone would suffice to make us feel that whatever personal sac- 

 rifice we may have done is thus fully compensated. But this is not all. 

 As a natural consequence of the drawing together of superior men from 

 our various nations, the spirit of the assembly has glided spontaneously 



