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A Committee on the Question of Tests for the Purity of 
Whiskey. 
ointed January ‘14th, de ie at the request of the Acting Sur- 
geon-General, January 5th, 1864.) 
B. Deere Jr., Chairman. 
Joun Torrey. 
R. E. Roaers. 
J. H. ALEXANDER. 
March 12th, 1864. A communication was sent from the 
Committee to Acting Surgeon-General I. R. Barnes, recom- 
mending that an appropriation of $3,500 be made to meet 
the expenses of the investigation. 
March 25th, 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 neces- 
sary purchases, etc., upon approval by the Committee. 
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A Committee on the Expansion of Steam. - 
February 29th, 1864. The Hon. Gideon Welles, Secre- 
tary 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 re- 
ported as early as practicable to the Department, and to be 
submitted also to the National Academy of Sciences for its 
judgment and suggestions. 
