SECTION IV. Anatomy and Physiology. S. WEIR MITCHELL. JOHN C. DALTON. SECTION V. Ethnology. WM. D. WHITNEY. IV. COMMITTEES OF THE ACADEMY. I. Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coinage. (Appointed May 4, 1863, at the request of the Hon. S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, dated April 24, 1863.) A. D. BACHE. (By resolution of the Academy.) L. M. RUTHERFURD. (Jan. 5, 1864.) And by authority of Art. II., Sect. 4, SAMUEL B. RUGGLES. Mr. Henry, Chairman of the Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coinage, reported to the Academy on behalf of the Committee, January 9, 1864, and offered the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That the Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coinage have leave to continue their labors and business now in progress, with power. (A copy of the Report was submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.) II. A Committee on the Question of Tests for the Purity of Whiskey. (Appointed January 14, 1864, at the request of the Acting SurgeonGeneral, January 5, 1864.) B. SILLIMAN, JR., Chairman. JOHN TORREY. R. E. ROGERS. J. H. ALEXANDER. March 12, 1864. A communication was sent from the Committee to Acting Surgeon-General J. K. Barnes, recommending that an appropriation of $3,500 be made to meet the expenses of the investigation. March 25, 1864. A letter was received from Acting Surgeon-General Barnes, stating that an appropriation of $3,500 had been authorized by the Secretary of War, and that Surgeon R. S. Satterlee, U. S. A., Medical Purveyor at New York, would be instructed to pay accounts for necessary purchases, etc., upon approval by the Committee. Committee reported Jan. 6, 1865, and were discharged. A copy of the report was transmitted to the SurgeonGeneral. III. A Committee on the Expansion of Steam. February 29, 1864. The Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, invited the appointment of a committee of three members of the Academy, to act jointly with three members named by the Department and with three members of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts, to conduct, witness, and report upon experiments which may be agreed upon by the Commission on the Expansion of Steam. The experiments are to be reported as early as practicable to the Department, and to be submitted also to the National Academy of Sciences for its judgment and suggestions. March 10. The Committee of the Academy was appointed, to consist of FAIRMAN ROGERS. F. A. P. Barnard. JOSEPH SAXTON. [The Navy Department named as its members of the joint Commission, HORATIO ALLEN, Chairman. ADMIRAL C. H. DAVIS. B. F. ISHERWOOD. The Franklin Institute named as its members of the joint Commission, J. H. TOWNE. J. V. MERRICK. R. A. TILGHMAN.] |