Sold only by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1924 341 Honorary President, SAMUEL W. STRATTON, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., and former Director of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. (Serving during Seventeenth Annual Conference) President, GEORGE K. BURGESS, Director, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. Second Vice President, I. L. MILLER, State Commissioner of Weights and Secretary, F. S. HOLBROOK, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. Treasurer, J. HARRY FOLEY, State Superintendent of Weights and Measures, (As elected by Seventeenth Annual Conference for the ensuing year) Second Vice President, THOMAS F. EGAN, Deputy State Superintendent of Secretary, F. S. HOLBROOK, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. Treasurer, GEORGE F. AUSTIN, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Detroit, Mich. R. F. BARRON, State Commissioner of Weights and Measures, St. Paul, Minn. WILLIAM F. CLUETT, Chief Deputy Inspector of Weights and Measures, J. HARRY FOLEY, State Superintendent of Weights and Measures, Trenton, N. J. A. H. GIBERT, Jr., Chief State Inspector of Weights and Measures, Columbia, JOSEPH J. HOLWELL, Commissioner, Mayor's Bureau of Weights and Measures, WILLIAM B. MCGRADY, Chief, State Bureau of Standards, Harrisburg, Pa. FRANCIS MEREDITH, State Director of Standards, Boston, Mass. E. J. SALDAÑA, Executive Secretary, Government of Porto Rico, San Juan, P. R. A. W. SCHWARTZ, Assistant State Superintendent of Weights and Measures, Elizabeth, N. J. WILLIAM F. STEINEL, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Milwaukee, Wis. L. P. STRONG, Chief, State Division of Weights and Measures, Lansing, Mich. GEORGE WARNER, Chief State Inspector of Weights and Measures, Madison, Wis. H. A. WEBSTER, State Commissioner of Weights and Measures, Concord, N. H. COMMITTEE ON SPECIFICATIONS AND TOLERANCES (Standing Committee) F. S. HOLBROOK, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. WILLIAM F. CLUETT, Chief Deputy Inspector of Weights and Measures, Chicago, Ill. R. F. BARRON, State Commissioner of Weights and Measures, St. Paul, Minn. CHARLES M. FULLER, City and County Sealer of Weights and Measures, Los Angeles, Calif. WILLIAM B. MCGRADY, Chief, State Bureau of Standards, Harrisburg, Pa. ACTING COMMITTEES FOR THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Committee on Resolutions.-A. W. Schwartz, I. L. Miller, A. H. Gibert, jr., W. Payne, H. R. Estes. Committee on Nominations.-W. F. Cluett, L. P. Strong, T. F. Egan, W. B. McGrady, William Foster. OFFICIAL STENOGRAPHER NORMAN L. KNAUSS, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. LIST OF PERSONS ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE Alaska.. Connecticut---. District of Columbia... Indiana... Louisiana.. Michigan. New Hampshire.__ New Jersey-- New York..__ Ohio... Pennsylvania-- Porto Rico.___. South Carolina__. Virginia. West Virginia_---- STATE DELEGATES DAN SUTHERLAND, Territorial Delegate, Alaska, FRED BENJAMIN, State Superintendent of Standards, WILLIAM F. CLUETT, Chief Deputy Inspector of I. L. MILLER, State Commissioner of Weights and J. N. SIREN, Sr., Inspector of Weights and Measures, L. P. STRONG, Chief, State Division of Weights and H. A. WEBSTER, State Commissioner of Weights EDWIN H. THOMAS, State Inspector of Weights and J. HARRY FOLEY, State Superintendent of Weights ELLIOTT B. HOLTON, Assistant State Superintendent A. W. SCHWARTZ, Assistant State Superintendent of BARNETT KANZER, Assistant Director, State Bureau ARTHUR MCWILLIAMS, Chief, State Division of WILLIAM B. MCGRADY, Chief, State Bureau of E. J. SALDAÑA, Executive Secretary, Government of A. H. GIBERT, Jr., Chief State Inspector of Weights T. H. ROPER, State Inspector of Weights and Meas- D. A. KINSEY, State Dairy and Food Division, E. P. DAVIS, County Sealer of Weights and Measures, H. H. MATHEWS, Sealer of Weights and Measures, LAWRENCE PAUL, Chief, Bureau of Weights and JAMES L. SKINNER, Sealer of Weights and Measures, C. R. VAUGHAN, Sealer of Weights and Measures, P. R. EDLER, State Inspector of Weights and Meas- J. Q. EMERY, State Superintendent of Weights and |