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the Acting Surgeon-General, J. K. Barnes, inviting the 
Academy to investigate and report upon the best methods of 
testing the purity of whiskey employed for medicinal pur- 
poses. A Committee was in consequence appointed, consist- 
ing of the following members : — 
B. Srrimman, Jr., Chairman. 
Joun Torrey, J. H. ALEXANDER, 
R. E. Rogers, J. L. Le Conte. 
On the 12th of March, 1864, the Committee addressed 4 
communication to the Acting Surgeon-General, recommend- 
ing that an appropriation of three thousand five hundred 
dollars ($3,500) be made to meet the expenses of the in- 
vestigation. The recommendation of the Committee was 
promptly adopted by the Acting Surgeon-General, and the 
sum asked for placed in the hands of R. S. Satterlee, United 
States Army, Medical Purveyor at New York, subject to the 
order of the Committee. On careful examination of the sub- 
ject, however, the Committee became satisfied that no money 
was needed, and presented ‘to the Academy, January 6, 1865, 
a report, a copy of which is herewith submitted. 
The report of the Committee was adopted by the Academy, 
and a copy was transmitted to the Surgeon-General. 
On the 29th of February, 1864, a communication was 
received from the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the 
Navy, inviting 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 expert 
> Silene, ape may be —— upon by the committee, on ae. 
; steam. The nts are to be re — 
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