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The American Bib1e Society daeires to exprese to all who took part in the

conference in Cuzco from December 31 to Januacy 9, 1944, its vecy great

g~eti

f'ication at the outcon:e of the conference, wbich achieved exceedingly vsluable

resulte in respect to many most import.ant que stions and which i n so doing

either laid the foundations or cket·c'iied them for future

contributio:~.s

in a

manner

that

the years te come wi ll in

O'lr ,itt¿g,ment

prove to be of very great

value

t ·

the whole future of the Indian pcpulatlona of tM threa

count~iea

in–

volved and the "hole futura of the

Chri~'oian

mov<>Joent.

wouJ.d be difficult

to name the genuina contributior.s which et:.oh

membt-~ r

th~

Conference r-tde to

it,

but particular gr<<titude ought to be expNssad to those 'Rho made the effort

to travel considerable distances undar no littl& difflculty, to Mr . Ritchie f or

the andless measures which he took to bring about the conference and to make it

a euccess, to Dr. Pike for giving usa full four monthe of hie year'e work and

accepting a most difficult commission under great limitation s of time; to Mr.

Spe ed for hia vecy helpful arrangements at Cuzco, and to Mies Ritchie and

othere for their aid in making the recorde of the Conference and conserving

ita

resulta. Especially appreciated is the courtesy of Sr. Villanueva Pinillos,

Director of Education, in making it possible for Dr. Julian Palacios to attend

the conference. We desire aleo to thank those missiona which were able to

provide for part of the expense of the attendance of their delegatee.

The members of the Conference were the following:

Miss Helen Cammack

Mra. Margaret Hudspith

Mies

Michell

Miss

Myc re

Mi se

Vinall

Mrs. Julia Wooaward

Dr. R. H. Brown

Mr.

K. G.

Cese

Mr. L. Herniman

Mr. L. Hitchcock

Mr. L. Hoggarth

Mr. W. Morris

Sr. J. Palacios

(Dr.

L. Pike

(Mr. J. Ritchie

Mr. W. G. Speed

Dr. W. Tidmarsh

Sr. Cleto Zambrena

Bolivia

Peru

Bolivia

Peru

Ecuador

Bolivia

Peru

Peru

u.s.A.

Peru

Peru

Ecuador

Bolivia

Oregon Friends Mi ssion

Bolivian Indian Mission

E.u.s.A.

B.I.!L

Peruvian Inland Miesion

Cospel Missionacy Union

Christian Missiono in Many Landa

E.u.s.A.

E.U.

S.A.

Independent Bd. of Presb 'n For. Mis.

E.u.s.A.

Asaembliee of God

SUlll!OOr Inatitute of Linguiatice)

A.B.S.)

E.u.s.A.

Plymouth Brethren (Eng1 ieh)

Methodiat

By way of general introduction there is enterad here the general state–

ment of purpose of the conference as drafted by Secretacy North of the

American Bible Society:

"Mejor Objective: To bring about a eubetantial coneensus of agreement

upon a prectical orthogrephy for the Indian languagee of the Andes, (1)

uniform for al1 dialects to the extent that uniformity ie practicable,

with additional characters where dialect speech sounds so require, (2)

making uee of the Spanish orthography as far as possible end where that

is coneistent in uaage, (3) avoiding by every practical effort the use

of symbols not contaimd in standard Spanieh type fonta.