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[[red underline]] Webster [[/red underline]] who can find no accomodation at my hotel. Got him a room at Chemists Club. 

Feb. 9. Drove away early to meeting [[red underline]] Naval Board [[/red underline]] at Brooklyn Navy Yard and took Whitney and Webster along at Chemists Club.
Saunders was absent and Cooper presided. [[red underline]] Edison was rather talkative to me [[/red underline]] and told me that one day when he was driving a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen thru a heated tube he had a smell of methylamine and referred to this as related to synthesis of ammonia by Haber process, but I told him I could not see where methylamine could come from [[strikethrough]] unlef [[/strikethrough]] ^[[unless]] he had iron containing carbon, but he says it was
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[[red underline]] plain iron. [[/red underline]] 
Addicks, Saunders, Sellers, absent. Were present Coffin, Baekeland, Edison, Emmet, Hewitt, Hunt, Hutchinson, Lamme, Maxim, Miller, Richards, Riker, Robins, Sperry, Sprague, Thayer, Webster, Whitney, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Woodward also Admiral Shaus, and Captain ^[[Strother]] Smith.- ^[[Adm.]] Taylor and Griffin were detained in Washington before Committee on Naval Affairs.
[[red underline]] Sprague [[red underline]] is just back of his cruise on Battleship New York and reports about electrical equipment and recommends many improvements and simplifications
[[red underline]] Coffin [[/red underline]] says the [[red underline]] biggest motors [[/red underline]] for flying machines made here do not exceed [[red underline]] 300 HP. [[/red underline]] (12 cylinders) while the British are constructing now a flying machine with [[red underline]] turn [[/red underline]] motors