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that Congress authorized the edition to be increased from 7,000 to 

 10,000 copies. 



THE LAKGLEY AERODYNAMICAL LABORATORY. 



At the annual meeting of the Board of Regents, held December 

 10, 1914, a resolution was adopted providing for the appointment by 

 the chancellor of a committee of four members of the board and the 

 secretary " to consider questions relative to the Langley Aerody- 

 namical Laboratory." The following committee was appointed: 

 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, chairman; Hon. William J. Stone, 

 Hon. Ernest "W. Roberts, Mr. John B. Henderson, and the secretary. 



This committee presented a report to the board on the history of 

 the organization of the laboratory under the authority of the Re- 

 gents and on the need of a National Advisory Committee on Aero- 

 nautics; also a statement of American agencies, resources, and facili- 

 ties for the work, and of the progress made by other nations in this 

 subject. In addition a report was made on the action taken by Con- 

 gress authorizing the appointment of an advisory committee by the 

 President of the United States, who subsequently selected such com- 

 mittee as follows : 



Gen. George P. Scriven, United States Army, and Lieut. Col. 

 Samuel Reber, United States Army, representing the Army; Capt. 

 Mark L. Bristol, United States Navy, and Naval Constructor H. C. 

 Richardson, United States Navy, representing the Navy ; Mr. Charles 

 F. Marvin, Chief United States Weather Bureau; Dr. S. W. Strat- 

 ton, Director United States Bureau of Standards; Mr. Byron R. 

 Newton, Assistant Secretary United States Treasury; Prof. W. F. 

 Durand, Stanford University of California ; Prof. Michael I. Pupin, 

 Columbia University, New York City; Prof. John F. Hay ford, 

 Northwestern University, Illinois; Prof. Joseph S. Ames, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. ; Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secre- 

 tary Smithsonian Institution. 



The committee's report stated further that it was not deemed prob- 

 able, in view of the organization and scope of the National Advisory 

 Committee for Aeronautics, that the Smithsonian Institution would 

 find it necessary to establish an aerodynamical laboratory for experi- 

 mental purposes. Its function would now be more in the direction 

 of aiding in such studies and experiments as could not well be other- 

 wise provided for and in publishing such material as might be of 

 value in the development of the art. 



On motion, the report was accepted. 



In this connection the secretary stated that the experiments being 

 conducted with the Langley aerodrome on Lake Keuka, New York, 

 were successfully continued during the year 1915 and that a report 



