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to perfect and execute these plans, the success of which was due in a large 

 measure to their efficient labors. The lady and gentleman aides appointed 

 by the Department of State and assigned to official delegations during 

 their stay in Washington were tireless and unremitting in their zeal. 



The social arrangements included entertainments of a highly varied 

 character. The following social program gives by days a hst of all social 

 functions of general and private character. These entertainments 

 included breakfasts, luncheons, teas, dinners, banquets, receptions, 

 theater parties, and special visits to the historic places in and about 

 Washington. Individual invitations were issued for all social enter- 

 tainments. 



SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26. 



Reception tendered the Latin American delegates at the New Willard 

 Hotel by the official delegation of the United States. 



Reception tendered the members of the families of the Latin Ameri- 

 can delegates at the New Willard by the Women's Auxiliary Committee. 



MONDAY, DECEMBER 27. 



Formal opening meeting at Memorial Continental Hall, D. A. R. 

 Building, Seventeenth and D Streets, directly north of the Pan American 

 Union Building at 10 a. m. 



Reception tendered by the Secretary of State and the United States 

 delegation to the members of the congress and invited guests at the Pan 

 American Union at 9 p. m. The following is the form of invitation ex- 

 tended for the reception at the Pan American Union : 



In honor of 



The Delegates to the Second 



Pan American Scientific Congress 



The Secretary of State and the United States Delegation 



request the pleasure of your company 



at a Reception in 



the Pan American Building 



on Monday evening, December the twenty-seventh 



at nine o'clock. 



This brilliant reception in honor of the delegates and their families 

 inaugurated the social program of the congress. The distinguished 

 guests were received in the Hall of the Americas by the Secretary of 

 State and Mrs. Lansing and Judge George Gray of Delaware, chair- 



