 The committee was started with a budget of £100 and the committee was chaired by Dr. A. D. Waller, F.R.S., and consisted of Dr. Barr, Dr. Dudley Buxton, Sit Victor Horsley, Dr. Sherrington and Dr Walker (and later Mr. A. Vernon Hardcourt and Professor Dunstan) "to investigate methods of quantitatively determining the presence of chloroform in the air and the living body".In their final report the committee stated that Chloroform doses above 2% were unsafe as cardiac arrest occurred under inhibition of the vagus nerve.They also deemed these inhalers suitable for giving accurate measures of chloroform