l64 REPORT OP THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 



THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916. 



After breakfast the party assembled and were carried at 9.45 in auto- 

 mobiles for a drive up Fifth Avenue and along Riverside Drive to Dyke- 

 man Street and thence back south to the American Museum ^ of Natural 

 History, where a buflfet luncheon was served by the trustees of the 

 museum. There were no speeches at this luncheon. The delegates 

 enjoyed greatly, however, the national airs of the various Latin American 

 countries that were played by the orchestra throughout the luncheon. 



The party left the museum at 2.15 for Columbia University where, on 

 arrival, the members were shown about the grounds and buildings. In 

 honor of the delegates a general assembly of the faculty of Columbia 

 University was held at 4 o'clock in the Horace Mann Auditorium. Ad- 

 dresses were delivered by the president of the university. Dr. Nicholas M. 

 Butler, and by Dr. Ernesto Quesada, Dr. Rodriguez Octavia, Dr. Julio 

 Philippi, Dr. Luis Anderson, and Hon. Seth Low. Dr. Butler presided at 

 this assembly and, in his address of welcome, stated that important 

 material barriers between western nations had disappeared before the 

 onslaught of men of science, but that "invisible barriers, the result of lack 

 of knowledge, lack of contact, lack of understanding, and of full apprecia- 

 tion of their forms of endeavor and of other peoples' undertakings," still 

 existed. After the assembly the party returned in automobiles to the 

 hotel for informal dinner in the caf6. At 8.30 in the evening President 

 and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler were hosts at a beautiul reception for 

 the delegates in the "President's House," One hundred and sixteenth 

 Street and Momingside Drive, attended by many of the most distinguished 

 men and women of New York. 



FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1916. 



Immediately after breakfast the party assembled in the hotel and were 

 driven to the Grand Central Station, whence a special train of parlor cars 

 carried them over the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad 

 to New Haven, Conn. The delegates were met en route by Dr. 

 Hiram Bingham, representing the faculty of Yale University, and 

 Mr. Maurice Hadley, representing the students' reception committee. 

 The following program for the New Haven visit, prepared in French, 

 Portuguese, Spanish, and English, was distributed on the train, which 

 arrived in New Haven at 11.59: 



1 The corner stone of the American Museum of Natural History was laid by President U. S. Grant in 

 1874. The southern facade measures 710 feet from tower to tower. Ou the completion of the three re- 

 maining facades this building will be the largest in the world to-day. The management and direction of 

 the American Museiun is tmder a board of trustees, administrative officers, and a scientific staff. The 

 latter is subdivided into 12 divisions. 



