THE BAUMR HYDKOMK/rEKS. 71 



latioii oil Mil' part of Congress, or some other means, for ostablisliiiig a fixed value to the two 

 .scales of tlie Haiimc iiKstruineiits, and I will ofl'er at the proper time the following resolution: 



'■'■Resolrcd, That a committee be appointed to consider what action, if any, is desirable, with 

 a view to establishinj; a legal value for the degrees of the Baume and other hydrometers of arbi- 

 trary scales; the committee to report at the next meeting." 



NoTK. — This resolntiiin was adopted, and the I'ollowiiif; comniitteo was appoiiitiMl : Julius E. Hilgard, Superiu- 

 tendent riiited States Coast Snive.v, Washington, D. C. ; Henry Morton, President Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J. ; 

 C. F. Chandler, Professor of Chemistry, Coluniliia College, New York. 



I would further state that 1 am very largely indebted to my assistant, F. G. Wiechmann, 

 Ph.B., for the experimental and historical data contained in the preceding tables. 



