Union also possesses a collection of more than 25,000 photographs, lantern slides, and negatives. Its reading room, which is open to the public, has upon its tables the representative magazines and newspapers of Latin America.

The Union occupies and owns buildings and grounds facing Seventeenth Street, between Constitution Avenue and C Street, overlooking Potomac Park on the south and the White House Park on the east. These buildings and grounds, representing an outlay of $1,100,000, of which Mr. Andrew Carnegie contributed $850,000 and the American republics $250,000, are dedicated forever to the use of the Pan American Union as an international organization.

The Pan American Union was founded in 1890, under the name of the International Bureau of American Republics, in accordance with the action of the First Pan American Conference, held in Washington in 1889-90 and presided over by James G. Blaine, then Secretary of State. It was reorganized in 1907 by action of the Third Pan American Conference, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1906. At the Fourth Conference, held at Buenos Aires in 1910, its name was changed from the International Bureau of American Republics to the Pan American Union. The Fifth Conference, held at Santiago, Chile, in 1923, the Sixth Conference, which met at Habana, Cuba, in 1928, and the Seventh Conference, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1933, considerably enlarged the functions of the Union.

PAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY (Established in 1929)

Offices: Mexico City, Mexico.

The Pan American Institute of Geography and History was created pursuant to a resolution adopted at the Sixth International Conference of American States which met at Habana, Cuba, in 1928. It was established at a preliminary assembly held in Mexico City in 1929. The First Assembly was held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1932, and the Second Assembly in Washington, D.C., in October 1935.1

The purpose of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History is the collection and dissemination of information on geographical and historical questions of mutual interest to the American republics.

An act of Congress approved August 2, 1935 (49 Stat. 512) authorized an annual contribution toward the expenses of the Institute.

1 See also p. 48 of this publication.

SECTION V

PERMANENT COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY PROVIDED FOR BY TREATIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PEACE AND TREATIES OF CONCILIATION, INCLUDING THE NAMES OF THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN MEMBERS

ALBANIA

(Treaty of October 22, 1928 1)

American Commissioners:

National Allen W. Dulles, of New York; Non-national: Victor M. Maúrtua, of Peru. Albanian Commissioners:

National: Faik Konitza;

Non-national: Albert Calmes, of Luxemburg.

Joint Commissioner: (vacant).

AUSTRIA

(Treaty of August 16, 19282).

American Commissioners:

National: Frank L. Polk, of New York;
Non-national: Tsuneo Matsudaira, of Japan.

Austrian Commissioners:

National: Victor Kienböck;

Non-national: Flemming Emil Herald Albrecht de Lerche, of Denmark.

Joint Commissioner: Cosme de la Torriente, of Cuba.

BELGIUM

(Treaty of March 20, 19293)

American Commissioner: W. Hallam Tuck, of New York.

Belgian Commissioner: Alfred Nerincx.

145 Stat. 2732.

245 Stat. 2756.

. 46 Stat. 2794.

Joint Commissioners:

Roberto Repetto, of Argentina, President;

Count Carl Moltke, of Denmark;

Andreas Andreades, of Greece.

BOLIVIA

(Treaty of January 22, 1914 1)

American Commissioners:

National: A. R. Talbot, of Nebraska;
Non-national: Charles L. Seya, of Latvia.

Bolivian Commissioners:

National: Severo Fernández Alonzo;

Non-national: (vacant).

Joint Commissioner: Baron Erik Marks von Wurtemberg, of Sweden.

BRAZIL

(Treaty of July 24, 19142)

American Commissioners:

National: Stephen Pierce Duggan, of New York;
Non-national: Raoul Dandurand, of Canada.

Brazilian Commissioners:

National: Levi Carneiro;

Non-national: Max Hüber, of Switzerland.

Joint Commissioner: Nicolas Politis, of Greece.

BULGARIA

(Treaty of January 21, 1929 3)

American Commissioners:

National: Robert Maynard Hutchins, of Connecticut; Non-national: Reyes Arrieta Rossi, of El Salvador. Bulgarian Commissioners:

National: Stoyan Daneff;

Non-national: Gilbert Gidel, of France.

Joint Commissioner: Louis Franck, of Belgium.

138 Stat. 1868. 239 Stat. 1698.

46 Stat. 2334.

CHILE

(Treaty of July 24, 19141)

American Commissioners:

National: Norman H. Davis, of New York;
Non-national: Hans Sulzer, of Switzerland.

Chilean Commissioners:

National: Carlos Estévez;

Non-national: Carlos Concha, of Peru.

Joint Commissioner: Eduard Beneš,2 of Czechoslovakia.

CHINA

(Treaty of September 15, 1914 3)

American Commissioners:

National: Frank J. Goodnow, of Maryland;
Non-national: (vacant).

Chinese Commissioners:

National: V. K. Wellington Koo;

Non-national: Henri de Codt, of Belgium.

Joint Commissioner: Knut Hjalmar Leonard de Hammarskjöld, of Sweden.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

(Treaty of August 16, 1928 *1)

American Commissioners:

National: John W. Davis, of West Virginia;
Non-national: Raul Fernandes, of Brazil.

Czechoslovak Commissioners:

National: Přemysl Šamal;

Non-national: Camille Barrère, of France.

Joint Commissioner: Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, of Great Britain.

139 Stat. 1645.

2 Dr. Beneš resigned from the Commission on April 18, 1936; his successor bas not yet been appointed.

339 Stat. 1642.

See also the agreement between the Governments of the United States and China, effected by an exchange of notes, signed May 11-19, 1916 (Treaty Series, no. 619-A).

446 Stat. 2257.

DENMARK AND ICELAND

(Treaty of April 17, 1914 1)

American Commissioners:

National: Irwin B. Laughlin, of Pennsylvania;
Non-national: Ricardo Aldao, of Argentina.

Danish Commissioners:

National: Poul Johannes Jørgensen;

Non-national: Oscar Fredrik von Sydow, of Sweden.

Joint Commissioner: Jonkheer J. Loudon, of the Netherlands.

ECUADOR

(Treaty of October 13, 19142)

American Commissioners:

National: Denys P. Myers, of Massachusetts;

Non-national: Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, of Germany.

Ecuadoran Commissioners:

National: (vacant);

Non-national: (vacant).

Joint Commissioner: Philip Henry Kerr, Marquis of Lothian, of Great Britain.

EGYPT

(Treaty of August 27, 1929 3)

American Commissioners:

National: James R. Sheffield, of New York;
Non-national: Joseph Redlich, of Austria.

Egyptian Commissioners:

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National: Abdel Hamid Badaoui Pasha;
Non-national: Eduardo Piola Caselli, of Italy.

Joint Commissioner: Hjalmar J. Procopé, of Finland.

138 Stat. 1883. 239 Stat. 1650.

347 Stat. 2132.

*Mr. Sheffield resigned from the Commission on September 18, 1935; his successor has not yet been appointed.