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have a very small force to organize and manage, I spent most of my spare moments 

 in doing that, and I put it down here in the hope that in the years to come other 

 people would give a statement of what they had been able to do. I believe there 

 are two important parts of the engineer's business; one is the technical and the 

 other is the mangerial, and when I get tired of one, I turn around and do the other. 

 Any information which may be contained in this paper is simply the result of the 

 compilation of methods which have been applicable to the case in point. 



Mr. Spencer Miller, Member: — I want to move a vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Robinson for his valuable paper, and for the time he must have spent in the com- 

 pilation of it. 



The President: — The only regret I have about the matter is that there are 

 not many more shipyards to need this admirable arrangement of their drawing- 

 room forces. 



The meeting now stands adjourned until 2.15 this afternoon. 



Thursday Afternoon, November 21, 191 2. 



The President called the meeting to order at 2.20 P. M. 



The President : — At the meeting of the Council yesterday afternoon a com- 

 mittee was appointed to draw up suitable resolutions in regard to the death of 

 Past-President Clement A. Griscom, and I call upon Mr. Lewis Nixon, the chairman 

 of the Committee, to make his report. 



Report of Special Committee on Resolutions Relating to the Death of 



Clement Acton Griscom. 



Mr. Nixon: — Mr. President and gentlemen, the special Committee of the 

 Council appointed by the President reports the following minutes and resolution, 

 and move that they be adopted by a rising vote : — 



"It is with deep sorrow that the Council reports the death of Clement Acton 

 Griscom, Past President and Honorary Associate Member of this Society, and who 

 from the date of his election as our first president has been its constant and active 

 friend. 



"He freely extended his great energy and abiUty to the establishment of the 

 Society as a permanent influence in the field of marine engineering and shipbuilding 

 achievement. 



"His services to this Society and to the shipbuilding and shipowning interests 

 of the United States were but a single instance of his energy and capacity which, 

 combined with great executive power, forcefulness of purpose and lofty vision, 

 aided so greatly in the commercial development of our country and in the perfection 

 of transportation on land and sea. 



