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SOCIETY STANDARDS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS SOON after its organization the Society recognized the need for standardization of method and practice in its field in order that true comparisons might be made. As the need for a standard is made apparent a technical committee is organized, composed of the members who, due to their experience, are most capable to consider the subject, and a draft is formulated. Such drafts of codes or standards are then sub mitted to the Society at the time of its meetings and thoroughly dis cussed by the membership at large. When corrected and accepted by the membership, or, in certain instances, approved by the Research Bureau, the codes and standards are submitted to the Council of the Society and, when approved, become a Society Standard. The Society, since its organization, has approved many reports of the Committees who were appointed to prepare Standards and Codes to indi cate preferred practice, in the heating and ventilating art. Of these reports the Society's Research Laboratory has endorsed three, (1) Report of special Committee on Standards for Flanged Fittings and Flanges (Transactions, Vbl. XVIII, p. 44) ; (2) Report of the Committee on the Use of the Pitot Tube (Transactions, Vol. XX, p. 210) ; (3) Report of the Committee on Code for Testing Low Pressure Heating Boilers, 1919 Revision (Transactions, Vol. XXV, p. 143), and in addition has accepted the Synthetic Air Chart, introduced by Dr. E. V. Hill, Past President of the Society, and approved at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Society in 1920. Abstracts of these Standards, Codes and Reports are here presented with such notes and comments as the Committee deemed desirable.-- The Guide Publication Committee.