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March 5, 1919: Marshall O. Leighton, Consulting Engineer, 

 Great Falls water power and its relation to the District of Columbia. 



March 19, 1919: Charles H. Paul, Assistant Chief Engineer, 

 Miami Conservancy District, Dayton, Ohio, Flood prevention works in 

 the Miami Valley. 



April 2, 1919: R. B. Canfield, Electrical Engineer, Development of 

 electric traction. Motion picture, King of the rails. 



April 16, 1919: Rear Admiral C. P. Plunkett, U. S. Navy, The 

 Fourteen-inch Naval Battery in France. 



May 7, 1919: Inspection trip to Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia. 



October i, 1919: C. T. Chenery, Secretary of Conference on Na- 

 tional Public Works, A national department of public works. 



October 15, 1919: Hon. Louis Brownlow, President, Board of 

 Commissioners, District of Columbia, The proposed building zone plan 

 for Washington, D. C. Captain John T. Talman, U. S. A., Plans and 

 progress of the Key Bridge. 



November 5, 1919: H. T. Cory, Consulting Engineer, U. S. Recla- 

 mation Service, Reclamation of land in the South. 



November 19, 191 9: General discussion of preliminary report of 

 Engineering Council's Committee on Classification and Compensation 

 of Engineers in the service of the Federal Government, led by John 

 C. HoYT, Hydraulic Engineer, U. S.j Geological Survey. Members of 

 all of the affiliated Societies of the jIcademy were invited to attend this 

 meeting. 4 ^ 



December 3, 1919: Annual dinner. Speakers: Hon. Edwin F. 

 Sweet, Acting Secretary of Commerce; Hon. Henry W. Temple, 

 Member of Congress; Dr. Hollis Godfrey, President, Drexel Institute; 

 Mr. Philip N. Moore, Consulting Engineer. 



December 17, 191 9: Annual meeting for the election of officers. 

 The following officers were elected for the year 1920: President, E. C. 

 Barnard; Vice-President, R. L. Faris; Treasurer, G. P. Springer; 

 Secretary, W. E. Parker; Directors, E. F. Wendt, Morris Hacker, 

 John C. Hoyt, Oscar C. Merrill, Anthony F. Lucas, C. H. Birdseye, 

 J. S. Conway, F. W. Albert; Committee on Membership, R. L. Faris, 

 J. S. Conway, C. H. Birdseye; Coinmittee on Meetings, F. W. Albert, 

 Oscar C. Merrill, R. H. Dalgleish, B. P. Lamberton, Jr., James 

 H. Van Wagenen. 



W. E. Parker, Secretary. 



