190 MINUTES. [Dec. 15, 



Stated Meeting^ December 15^ 1899. 



Vice-President Sellers in the Chair. 



Preseuc, 30 members. 



The Curators announced that the portrait of Dr. Eush had 

 been restored and placed in the North room of the Society. 



The death of Sir Kawson W. Rawson, of London, England, 

 a member of the Society, was announced. 



Prof. Haupt made the following remarks supplementary to 

 his paper read October 6, " On the Results Secured at 

 Aransas Pass, Tex., by the Reaction Breakwater:" (See 

 page 135.) 



As stated in the paper presented on October 6, the bids for the 

 removal of the obstructing Government jetty were advertised on 

 September 25 for thirty days. When they were opened it was 

 found that there was but one bidder, that his bid was informal and 

 in consequence the work was not undertaken. 



On December 7, the Washington dispatches reported that Hon. 

 Rudolph Klebery, representing the Aransas Pass district, intro- 

 duced a bill into Congress to place the work under the continuing 

 contract system, with authority to complete the double jetty plan 

 as proposed by the U. S. Engineers which were estimated to cost 

 $1,500,000, to create a channel by dredging and thus destroy the 

 utility of a work which has already produced a navigable channel 

 of fifteen feet M.L.W. at a cost of about one-twentieth the usual 

 Government method, in much less time and without dredging. 

 The channel is maintained by the currents, and is therefore rela- 

 tively permanent. 



A year will therefore soon have passed under a renewal of Gov- 

 ernment jurisdiction, with nothing further done toward the comple- 

 tion of the reaction breakwater. 



The report of the Finance Committee was received. 



The appropriations for the year 1900 were made. 



The Society then held an election for members of the 



