



THE following is a list of the principal books which have been 

 consulted in the preparation of this work : 



" Weather." Abercromby. 



" The Law of Storms and of Variable Winds." Reid. 



" The Law of Storms." Dove. 



" The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology." Maury. 



" Elements of Geology." Lyell. 



" Temple of Serapis." Babbage. 



"Tides and Waves." Airy (Excerpt "Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.") 



"Tides." Whewell and Lubbock (Philosophical Transactions, 1833.) 



" Encyclopaedia Britannica." 



" Chambers's Encyclopaedia." 



Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 



"Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observations." Baird and Darwin (Minutes of 



Proceedings of the Royal Society, vols. xxxix. and xlv.) 

 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



Minutes of Proceedings of the International Maritime Congress, 1893. 

 " Notes on British and Foreign Harbours." Rennie. 

 "Harbours and Docks." Harcourt. 



" The Design and Construction of Harbours." Thos. Stevenson. 

 The various Blue Books containing Reports of Commissions on Harbours, etc., 



1845-1884. 



Report of Committee on the Employment of Convicts in the United Kingdom, 1882. 

 Report of Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the question 



of Electrical Communication between Light-vessels and outlying Lighthouses 



and the Shore, 1887. 

 " Building Construction," Part III. 

 " Handbook for Surveyors." Hurst. 

 " Chambers's Journal." 

 " Civil Engineering." Rankine. 

 " Voyage of the Challenger" Thomson. 

 " Blasting and Quarrying of Stone." Burgoyne. 

 " The Ice Age in North America." Wright. 

 " Engineering." 



