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ment the Pan-American Scientific con-
gress will hold it's meeting the last
of December, this year, at Santiago,
whittier delegates from all nations In
the Americas are now making prep
arations to go. The United States has
appropriated $4,000 to defray the ex-
penses of it's delegates and the choice
of men from the United States con-
sists of Prof Archibald Cary Coolidge
of the Harvard historical department;
Prof. Hiram Bingham, now of the Yale
historical department, but for the last
five years curator of South American
history and literature at the Cam
bridge university; Prof Leo S. Rowe
of the University of Pennsylvania. a
well-known authority on Latin Ameri-
ca; Prof. Paul S. Reinsch of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, delegate to
the third Pan-American congress in
1906, and well known for his writings
on political science and colonial gov
ernment; Col. William c. Gorgas Of
the United States army, chief
sanitary officer of the Isthmian
canal commission; William H.
Holmes, chief of the bureau OF
American ethnology at the
Smithsonian institution, Washington :;
Prof. Bernard Moses of the historical
and political science department of the
University of California; George NJ.
Rommel of the bureau of animal indus
try of the department of agriculture;
Prof William NJ. Shepherd of Colum-
bia university, close student of
South American affairs, and Prof. Will
liam B. Smith of the philosophical de-
partment of Tulane university, Louisi-
ana, who is almost as we'll known as a
mathematician and New Testament
critic as a philosopher. Prof. Rowe
is chairman and Prof. Reinsch vice
chairman of the delegation.
Though :he coming congress is the
first scientific gathering to include all
the countries of the western hemis-
phere, it will be the fourth congress
of the kind for the Latin-American
countries. The first was held at
Buenos Ayres in 1898, the second at
Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1901. and the
third at Rio de Janeiro in 1905. 1t is
owing to the predominant part as
sumed by the United States in the
Pan-American conference of 1906. that
this country was invited to send rep
resentatives to the more specialized
congress.
The purpose of the scientific con
gress at Santiago is to bring together
advanced thinkers in all lines OF sci
ha iCn
the numerous problems confronting
modern civilization. and particularly
of such as, through their elucidation
will tend to the social betterment and
national prosperity of the countries
represented.
Each congress has been broader In
purpose than its predecessor and has
had a larger representation. but 1t is
due to the Chilean committee that
planned the coming meeting that the
United States was invited to send
delegates.
The United States government
through Secretary of State Root, in
yited Is universities to send represen
tatiyes. Only six have responded, but
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Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Minneso
ia. Texas and Wisconsin and George
washington, Johns Hopkins and
Princeton will name delegates.
The United States government ac
cepted the Chilean invitation to send
delegates to the first Pan.American
congress because it felt such meetings
would prove extremely valuable not
only in effecting the close relations
of the American countries. so much
striven for now, but because 1t was
sure the meeting would be OF great
practical good.
At the Rio congress Of 1905, where
IA countries had representatives, 12(
papers were read. In the coming con
gress the topics for discussion are
under nine headings: mathematics
physical sciences, natural, anthropo