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Delegates:

FIFTH WORLD MOTOR TRANSPORT CONGRESS

(Rome, September 25-29, 1928)

Alvan Macauley, of Michigan, President of the National Automobile Chamber of Com

merce

George F. Bauer, of New York, Secretary of the Foreign Trade Committee, National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce

Mowatt M. Mitchell, of California, Commercial Attaché at Rome

Harry H. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, Trade Commissioner at Paris

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE
RIGHTS OF AUTHORS

(Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana, September 27-October 1, 1928)

Delegate: John Dyneley Prince, of New Jersey, Minister to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE

(Rome, October 10-18, 1928)

Delegates (representing the United States, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Porto Rico):1

Lewis Cecil Gray, of Tennessee, Principal Economist in the Division of Land Economics,
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agriculture

Asher Hobson, of Washington, U. S. member of the Permanent Committee of the Inter-
national Institute of Agriculture

THE GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNMENTAL EXPERTS ON DOUBLE TAXATION AND TAX EVASION

(Geneva, October 22-31, 1928)

Expert: Thomas S. Adams, professor of political economy, Yale University

Assistants:

Mitchell B. Carroll, of the District of Columbia, Department of Commerce
Annabel Matthews, of Georgia, Treasury Department

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS CONFERENCE

(The Hague, October 23-27, 1928)

Delegate: John Barton Payne, of Illinois, Chairman of the American National Red Cross

These delegates were also authorized to attend the meeting of agricultural statisticians called for October 6, which was preparatory to the convening of the Assembly.

DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

(Paris, November 12-22, 1928)

Observers:

Henry C. MacLean, of New York, Commercial Attaché at Paris

Richard Eldridge, Resident Acting Commissioner at Paris of the American Section of the International Chamber of Commerce

William Wallace Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Philadelphia

Delegate:

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC STATISTICS

(Geneva, November 26-December 14, 1928)

E. Dana Durand, of California, Chief of the Statistical Research Division, Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce

Advisers:

James F. Dewhurst, Chief of the Statistical Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Asher Hobson, of Washington, U. S. member of the Permanent Committee of the Inter-
national Institute of Agriculture at Rome

Secretary of the delegation: Elbridge D. Rand, of California, Consul at Geneva
Disbursing officer: Gilson G. Blake, jr., of Maryland, Consul at Geneva

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES ON CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION

Delegates:

(Washington, December 10, 1928-January 5, 1929)

Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, Secretary of State, Chairman of the Conference
Charles Evans Hughes, of New York

Secretary of the delegation: Warren D. Robbins, of New York, Minister to El Salvador

Secretary to the delegation: James Oliver Murdock, of Illinois

Assistant secretary: Ralph Miller,1 of New York

Members of the secretariat:

Cord Meyer, of New York, secretary general

1

Walter C. Thurston, of Arizona, secretary

Pierre de L. Boal,1 of Pennsylvania, secretary

Copley Amory, jr.,' of New Hampshire, secretary

1

Orme Wilson, jr.,' of New York, secretary

Michael J. McDermott, of Massachusetts, press liaison officer

Herbert F. Wright, of the District of Columbia, editor

Winthrop R. Scott,' of Ohio, distribution officer

Benjamin Cohen, of Chile, chief interpreter

Alonso S. Perales, of Texas, interpreter and special assistant

Leobardo L. Gonzales, of Cuba, interpreter

J. de Siqueira Coutinho, of the District of Columbia, interpreter
F. L. J. Dumont, of the District of Columbia, interpreter

Harvey E. Fenstermacher, of Pennsylvania, archivist

William McNeir, of the District of Columbia, disbursing officer

1 Foreign Service officer.

Delegates:

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AERONAUTICS CONFERENCE

(Washington, December 12-14, 1928)

William F. Whiting, of Massachusetts, Secretary of Commerce

Hiram Bingham, of Connecticut, United States Senator; President of the National Aeronautic Association

Orville Wright, of Ohio

Nelson T. Johnson, of Oklahoma, Assistant Secretary of State

F. Trubee Davison, of New York, Assistant Secretary of War

Edward P. Warner, of Massachusetts, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics
William P. MacCracken, jr., of Illinois, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics
W. Irving Glover, of New Jersey, Second Assistant Postmaster General
Charles A. Lindbergh, of Missouri, Colonel, Air Corps Reserve, U. S. Army

Joseph S. Ames, of Maryland, Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics

Harry Guggenheim, of New York, President of the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics

Lester D. Gardner, of New York, President of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce Executive officer: Leighton W. Rogers, of New York

Assistant executive officers:

Osborn S. Watson, of Georgia

A. Pendleton Taliaferro, jr.

Editor of papers: R. Sidney Bowen, jr.
Director of the news: Martin Codel
Translators and interpreters:

J. J. Labat

W. R. Orrmins

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Delegates:

(Cairo, Egypt, December 15–22, 1928)

Bailey K. Ashford, Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, retired; representing the War Department, and the Government of Porto Rico; senior delegate

Gilbert Fitz-Patrick, Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps Reserve, representing the U. S. Army

Cristobal Manalang, M. D., Chief of the Malaria Section, Philippine Health Service, representing the Philippine Islands

Taliaferro Clark, Senior Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service
Robert Pierret, Consultant, U. S. Public Health Service

XXVIII. FOREIGN EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

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