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joint sessions witli a section or sub-section of 

 corresponding interest. 



The following persons will be members of 

 the congress: 



The oiEcial delegates of the countries represented. 



The representatives of the universities, institutes, 

 societies and scientific bodies of the countries rep- 

 resented. 



Such persons in the countries participating in 

 the congress as may be invited by the executive 

 committee, with the approval of the countries rep- 

 resented. 



All writers of papers. 



All members of the congress shall be en- 

 titled to attend its sessions, to take part in the 

 debates, and to receive a copy of such publica- 

 tions as the executive committee may issue. 

 There will be no membership fee of any 

 character. 



The interest throughout Latin America for 

 the congress is steadily growing. The execu- 

 tive committee is assured that all of these 

 countries appreciate deeply the active prepara- 

 tions now being made in Washington for a 

 successful meeting, and will avail themselves 

 generously of this great opportunity for Pan- 

 American solidarity of action in intellectual 

 interests. Each of the participating Latin 

 American countries, eighteen in number, has 

 been invited to appoint a committee to co- 

 operate with the executive committee of the 

 congress and to make such arrangements as 

 will insure the most generous participation of 

 each country in the congress through the at- 

 tendance of delegates and representation on 

 the program. A feature of particular impor- 

 tance and appealing interest to the Latin 

 American countries is that of the special Pan- 

 American topics which will be discussed at the 

 time of the congress in a series of conferences. 

 The various sections of the congress, and in 

 some cases the different sub-sections, have 

 designated certain topics to be discussed in 

 this manner. Each country has been invited 

 to select its most eminent writers to prepare 

 papers on these topics, one person for each 

 topic. 



Section I will discuss such subjects as relate 

 to the origin, development and distribution of 



mankind into ethnic, social and political 

 groups. Of particular interest are the topics 

 which refer to the chronology of the American 

 race and the evolution of its culture, and the 

 complex of races and nationalities now consti- 

 tuting the Pan-American populations. 



The chairman of this section is Mr. William 

 Henry Holmes, head curator of anthropology, 

 United States National Museum. Mr. Holmes 

 is a member of the leading national and for- 

 eign societies devoted to research in the fields 

 of archeology and anthropology. He was a 

 delegate to the First Pan-American Scientific 

 Congress, which met in Santiago, Chile, in 

 1908. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the divi- 

 sion of physical anthropology. United States 

 National Museum, is the secretary of this 

 section. 



In addition to the chairman and the secre- 

 tary, the committee in charge of the program 

 of Section I includes the following representa- 

 tives of important institutions, societies and 

 other organizations devoted in whole or in 

 part to the science of man: 



F. W. Hodge, of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, Smithsonian Institution. 



Walter Hough, of the United States National 

 Museum. 



J. Walter Fewkes, of the National Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Eoland B. Dixon, of Harvard University. 



C. 0. Willoughby, of the Peabody Museum of 

 American Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

 University. 



George B. Gordon, of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Frederick Starr, of the University of Chicago. 



Albert Ernest Jenks, of the University of Min- 

 nesota. 



Franz Boas, of Columbia University. 



Hiram Bingham, of Yale University. 



Warren K. Moorehead, of the Phillips Academy 

 Museum, Andover, Mass. 



A. L. Kroeber, of the University of California. 



Elizabeth Duncan Putnam, of the Davenport 

 Academy of Sciences, Davenport, Iowa. 



Alice C. Fletcher, of the Areheological Institute 

 of America. 



Stewart Culin, of the Museum of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



M. H. Saville, of the Heye Museum, New York. 



