FOURTH PLENARY SESSION. 



The dinner given by the Secretary of State and the delegates on the 

 part of the United States of America to the Latin American delegates, 

 on Saturday evening, January 8, 1916, at the New Willard Hotel, is 

 included among the plenary sessions of the congress in accordance with 

 an established custom of the scientific congresses. 



The ballroom of the New Willard was beautifully decorated for the 

 occasion with the flags of the twenty-one American Republics arranged in 

 graceful festoons. At the long table running the entire length of the 

 west side of the room were seated the presiding officer, the Brazilian 

 ambassador upon his right and the Chilean ambassador upon his left. 

 Then, on either side, were seated the diplomatic representatives of the 

 other Latin American countries and the chairmen of the visiting delega- 

 tions. The great body of guests were placed around forty small tables 

 arranged in parallel rows. The music for the occasion was furnished 

 by the United States Marine Band orchestra, seated in the gallery 

 directly facing the speakers' table. 



The guests assembled in the small ballroom, where they were wel- 

 comed by Secretary Lansing; Judge Gray, chairman of the United 

 States delegation; WHUam Phillips, Third Assistant Secretary of State 

 and chairman of the executive committee on the part of the United 

 States; by the members of the United States delegation; and by the 

 secretary general and assistant secretary general of the congress. After 

 the guests were seated a flash-light photograph was taken. 



A feature of the evening was the distribution of silver and bronze 

 medals struck ofiF by the United States mint at Philadelphia in com- 

 memoration of the Second Pan America Scientific Congress bearing the 

 words, on one side, "Second Pan American Scientific Congress Dec. 27, 

 1915-Jan. 8, 1916, Washington U. S. A.," and on the other, the legend, 

 "Friendship SoHdarity Progress Through Scientific Achievement," and 

 figures representing North and South America with hands clasped over a 

 rehef map of North and South America with an outline of the Pan Ameri- 

 can Building at the base. The menu cover was designed by the well- 

 known sculptress of New York, Sally James Farnham, who also assisted 



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