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and the President transmitted the invitation to Congress, accompanied by a 

 commendatory message. In due course the invitation was officially accepted 

 and a liberal sum appropriated for the purposes of the congress. The com- 

 mittee of organization also extended invitations, through the Department of 

 State at Washington, to a number of universities and other institutions and 

 societies. As a result a large delegation was accredited to the congress. The 

 membership of the delegation and the institutions represented are as follows: 



Government delegates. 



L. S. Rowe, University of Pennsylvania. 

 Paul S. Reinsch, University of Wisconsin. 

 Hiram Bingham, Yale University. 

 A. C. Coolidge, Harvard University. 



and should embrace this opportunity for cooperation in scientific research with 

 the representatives of the other American republics. It is worthy of con- 

 sideration that, in addition to the purely scientific interests to be subserved by 

 such a congress and in addition to the advantages arising from an interchange 

 of thought and the intercourse of the scientific men of the American countries 

 and the good understanding and friendly relations which will be promoted, 

 there are many specific relations arising from the very close intercourse be- 

 tween the United States and many Latin-American countries, incident to our 

 expanding trade, our extending investments, and the construction of the 

 Panama Canal, which make a common understanding and free exchange of 

 opinion upon scientific subjects of great practical importance. 



To make our representation possible I have the honor to recommend that the 

 Congress be asked to appropriate the sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as 

 may be necessary, to enable the United States to send a number of delegates 

 corresponding to the number of sections into which the congress is to be di- 

 vided, together with a secretary and disbursing officer, and to pay other neces- 

 sary expenses. 



Inasmuch as it is desired that all communications or scientific works to be 

 presented to the congress be received before September 30, it is much to be 

 hoped that provision for the participation of this government may be made at 

 an early date and that the appropriation be made immediately available. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Elihu Root. 



Department of State, 



Washington, December 19, 1907. 



a To the Senate and House of Representatives: 



I transmit herewith for the -consideration of the respective Houses of the 

 Congress a report of the Secretary of State representing the appropriateness 

 of early action in order that in response to the invitation of the Government 

 of Chile the Government of the United States may be enabled fittingly to be 

 represented at the First Pan-American Scientific Congress, to be held at San- 

 tiago, Chile, the first ten days of December, 190S. 



The recommendations of this report have my hearty approval, and I hone that 

 the Congress will see fit to make timely provision to enable the Government to 

 respond appropriately to the invitation of the Government of Chile in the 

 sending of delegates to a congress which can not fail to be of great interest 

 and importance to the governments and peoples of all the American republics. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



The White House, December 21, 1907. 



