HE PAN AMERICAN UNION is the inter¬ 
national organization maintained at Washington, 
D. C., by the 21 American Republics, as follows: 
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa 
Ri ca, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salva¬ 
dor, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, 
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay, and 
Venezuela. It is devoted to the development of com¬ 
merce, friendly intercourse, good understanding, and 
the preservation of peace among these countries. It 
is supported by quotas contributed by each country, 
based upon their populations. Its affairs are ad¬ 
ministered by a Director General and Assistant 
Director, elected by and responsible to a Governing 
Board, which is composed of the Secretary of State of 
the United States and the diplomatic or special repre¬ 
sentatives in Washington of the other American Gov¬ 
ernments. These two executive officers are assisted 
by a staff of international specialists, statisticians, 
editors, translators, compilers, librarians, stenog¬ 
raphers, and clerks. The Union publishes Monthly 
Bulletins in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, which 
are careful records of Pan American progress. It also 
publishes numerous special reports and booklets on 
countries, cities, commodities, etc., of Latin America. 
Its library, the Columbus Memorial Library, contains 
95,000 volumes and a large collection of maps. There 
is also a collection of photographs, lantern slides, and 
negatives. The Union is housed in a beautiful building 
erected through the munificence of Andrew Carnegie 
and the contributions of the American Republics. 
