The Organization and Activities of the Committee on Scientific Research of the State Council of Defense of California Bulletin of the National Research Council (1923) / Chapter Skim
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ACTIVITIES OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES
ACTIVITIES OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES
Pages 8-40
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H Campbell, Chairman, Professor of Botany, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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E JafEa, of the California Agricultural Experiment Station, had in the meantime developed a method for the removal of the bitter principle in buckeyes, which it is hoped will lead ultimately to the utilization of this source of food.
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a. Franklin, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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The Chairman of the Committee on Chemical Research also pry _ , ~ pared a general report on the iron situation on the Pacific Coast with particular reference to the possibilities for developing electric smelting for the production of pig iron for steel and foundry purposes. This Committee continued the census of chemists originally undertaken by the.
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The Chairman of the (committee on (chemical Research served as an advisor to the Committee on Occupa.tionakSelection of the State Committee on Scientific Research with respect to requests by chemists for deferred classification under the Selective Service Act. The Committee on Chemical Research also furnished information upon a great variety of inquiries conn:ecte`1 with war preparations.
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During the war the research work concerned with gas warfare was centered at the American University Experiment~Station at Washington. In the Department of Chemistry of the University of California, in co-operation with this Station, several problems relating both to offensive and defensive gas warfare, were investigated and intensive work was done on two of the defense problems.
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W Wildman, Professor of Economics, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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J Ryan, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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At its first meeting, on April 14, 1917, the Committee on Entomological Investigations recommended that the following questions be given immediate attention in co-operation with all the existing entomological agencies within the state, and that a sum of $10,750 be set aside by the State Council of Defense for conducting these investigations: Insects pests of grain Insect pests of potatoes and other truck and garden crops Control of insect pests of stored grains, seed, and dried fruits (wheat and rice weevils, Mediterranean flour moth, Indian meal moth, etc. ~ Distribution of mosquitoes and relation to malaria A study of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick, fleas lice, etc.
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The, importance of making more thorough inspections of the warehouses and mills throughout the state was called to the attention of the Federal Food Commissioner for California, and the matter was referred by him to the State Committee on Scientific Research. Upon further representations being made to the Federal Food Commissioner for California, $230 was set aside from his budget to cover the expenses of this work and Professor Essig and Professor Doane were appointed consulting entomologists to the Food Commission.
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Bailey Willis, Professor of Geology, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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Thus began the development of an extensive correspondence which was undertaken at first to aid the Committee in its investigations and which later gradually changed into a series of inquiries for advice from prospectors, miners, property owners, and others interested in the development of mineral resources. Not only were numerous samples sent in for examination and opinion, but many visitors came to be shown the different types of ores and mineral associates, the best methods of prospecting and of recognizing valuable minerals, the best methods of developing ore bodies, and the best methods of disposing of their ores and of getting into touch with the consumers.
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Report on Coal. In June, 1917, the Committee on Petroleum Resources of the State council of Defense requested the Committee on Geology and Mineral Resources to prepare for its use a brief report on the coal supply of the Pacific Coast in relation to petroleum.
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Among other matters undertaken by this Committee were: (1) co-operation with the Committee on Occupational Selection of the State Committee on Scientific Research, in passing upon cases of men essential, or supposed to be essential, to work in war minerals industries: (2)
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experimental work relative to the use of taurin as a therapeutic agent in the treatment of tub ercuTosis.
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The research was carried on at the Stanford Medical~School, in San Francisco until April, 1918, when it was transferred to the Laboratory of Bacteriology at Leland Stanford Junior University, and was there developed in four main directions: I Case Examir~atior~s.
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During the summer of 1918 Mrs. Burke collected five samples of material from places in OakdaTe, Madera, Hollister, and Berkeley, where outbreaks of botulism had occurred during the previous winter, and also from the neighborhood of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
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1. Botulism occurs with comparative frequency in the Pacific Coast states in human beings.
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It was found that taurin can be obtained in comparatively large quantities from the abalone which occurs in great numbers on the Pacific Coast. For this purpose a suitable method of extraction was devised and reported by Schmidt and by Watson.2 They also founds in accordance with work previously reported by Salkowski4 that the sulphur of taurin was almost wholly eliminated as "neutral sulphur" showing that taurin was eliminated either as such or possibly in combination with urea, as tauro-carbonic acid.
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While in the time adorned and with the funds available, exhaustive experiments relative to the use of taurin as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of tuberculosis were not possible, sufficient data hate been obtained to warrant the conclusion that taurin does not exhibit any marked specific action which would lead to its use in the cure of tubercular infections.
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, Professor of Organic Chemistry and Dean of Graduate Study, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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M Folsom, Professor of Mining,~ Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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Such increased production was looked upon as dependent upon the co-operation of four separate factors—ma.teria.Is, labor, land, and transportation. The following recommendations were submitted for the consideration of the Governor of the State of California: Increased Prod~ct~or~.- That every reasonable effort be made to increase the production of California petroleum promptly and that to this end additional drilling be undertaken, as quickly as material and labor are available, on the lands on which the largest additional production can be developed in the least time and with the smallest expenditure of material and labor.
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2, is a matter which must be left to the wisdom and fairness of the federal government, when the government has before it all the facts, including the needs of the government, present and future, the extent and effect of the past and present production in this reserve, the urgent necessity for increased production of California petroleum, the relative productivity and availability of undriTIed proved lands, and the fact that on any reasonable assumption an adclitional production of more than 35,000 barrels per day cannot be secured unless some additional drilling is done in Naval Reserve No.
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Fernando Sanford, Professor of Physics, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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Frank Dwell, Professor of Psychology, Leland Stanford Junior University. Stanford IJniversity.
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C Starks, Professor of Zoology, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University.
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M McFarland of Leland Stanford Junior University Professor McFarland went into this question thoroughly and with very interesting and important results.
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It was believed that if methods of salting, drying, smoking, picl:ling, mild-curing, or otherwise preserving the rock cods, smelt, sardines, and other species not as yet much used as human food could be found, an enormous quantity of nutritious food would be provided on the Pacific Coast, not only for consumption in America but to be sent abroad. In the phenomenal growth of the sardine industr.~r on the California coast at about this time, it was possible to correct imperfect early methods through the development of proper packing; methods and expert inspection and this development was a distinct contribution to our food resources.
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The survey was quite complete and shows that the state has in its mussel beds a very large and important food resource which is susceptible of great development. The report on this survey was of such general interest that it was recommended for publication by the State Council of Defense as one of the series of California War Papers.
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There are on the California coast about 500 species of fish, only about 40 of which are used at all as human food. Preliminary investigations showed that there were more than 100 additional species on this coast-that would make delicious and nutritious food if the public could be made accustomed to using them, and that nearly all of them occur in commercial abundance.
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S Bureau of Fisheries, the State :Fish and Game Commission, the State Market Director, and various civic organizations.
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The Committee took up this matter and passed a resolution favoring the establishment of such stations. It secured the endorsement of the resolution by numerous fishery organizations, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, State and Federal Fish Commissioners, the Federal Food Administration, the State Market Director, and many other bodies.
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