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Evening took Townsend to Brevoort Restaurant and then I went to Washington by midnight train.
[[annotation in left margin]] charge 12 hs. & expenses [[/annotation]]
April 19. At 10 A.M went to [[red underlined]] National Research Council meeting at National Museum 
^[[in Washington]] [[/red underlined]] Contradicted [[red underlined]] Bogert [[/red underlined]] who in his usual dry way began to extol all what his organization of red tape and sub-committees of the Section of Chemistry had accomplished and [[red underlined]] intended to accomplish. [[/red underlined]] I mentioned my own experience how the thing works or better how it does not work. Afterwards [[red underlined]] Milliken, Geo. E. Hale and Cary Hutchinson [[/red underlined]] all complimented me for my outspoken statement. [[red underlined]] This Council is up mainly of men of National Academy of Sciences and the meeting [[/red underlined]]
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[[red underlined]] made a rather unsatisfactory impression. All men whose time is not very valuable and who [[/red underlined]] on this account drag out the proceedings. Got [[/red underlined]] rather disgusted in listening to dreary and long winded report of the Geographer [[/red underlined]] 
It tried my patience. I was thinking how all this must impress men like [[red underlined]] Earle and Taylor [[/red underlined]] both at the head of important branches of the Navy who at these critical times are needed in their office and who had been invited there to sit and listen to these [[red underlined]] dreary proceedings. [[/red underlined]] Afterwards lunch by invitation at the New Raleigh.
Evening [[red underlined]] Cleveland Moffet [[/red underlined]] the writer invited me for supper at Cosmos Club with Prof. [[red underlined]] E. H. Moore the mathematician Henry Washington the [[strikethrough]] geologist, [[/strikethrough]] mineralogist, Edward Russell [[/red underline]]