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II. 
A Committee on the Expansion of Steam. 
February 29,1864. The Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary 
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 experi- 
ments which may be agreed upon by the Commission on the 
Expansion of Steam. The experiments are to be reported 
as early as practicable to the Department, and to be submit- 
ted also to the National Academy of Sciences for its judg- 
ment and suggestions. : 
March 10. The Committee of the Academy was @P- 
pointed, to consist of 
FarrmMan RoGers. F. A. P. BARNARD. 
JOSEPH SAXTON. 
[The Navy Department named as its members of the 
joint Commission, 
Horatio Atten, Chairman. 
C. H. Davis, B. F. IsHer woop. 
The Franklin Institute named as its members of the joint 
ission, 
J. H. Towne. J. V. MERRICK. 
R. A. Tirenman. | 
- The joint Commission reported, January 26, 1866, that the 
__ €xperiments are still going on in New York, but that, owns 
_ to the great number of trials necessary to eliminate practical 
