048 REPORT—1596. 
TABLE V; 
Variation of Values of Coefficient of Elasticity from the Mean Value 
of all the Observations on corresponding Bars. 
Mean Value of o\5e 
> 7 Mean Value of | Deviation 
Observer Bar Gauge aa all Loadings by | from Mean 
Points ae Over all Observers | per Cent. 
BOT ape. PEPSI A Flats - ae 
jae L a.c. 13200 13245 = 
A.B. W. Kennedy . f ae 13500 13249 41:89 
| Fr c.e. | 13430 13249 +1°37 
(B = 13285 | ~ 13193 + °70 
J.A.Ewing .  .|1K SS HORST e3R5 _ 13245 + 91 
(E — | 13290 13249 + 31 
A ae Te, 13210 13193 + 13 
[1 ac. | 13340 13245 + 72 
| T. Hudson Beare Be Wy c.d. | 13185 13245 — ‘45 
[E ac. | ‘13100 13249 _-112 
F c.d. 13110 13249 —1-05 
(B lm,..- | — ‘13120 13193 — *55 
' H. S. Hele Shaw 1K eaess OH T5167 13245 = “At 
| (E see With fe1ae 13249 ed 
| A oe 13110 13193 — +63 
J. Goodman . F = 13244 13245 — O01 
F = jee 1S95D 13249 + 01 
( B kn. | 13298 13193 + -80 
Wee Unwin ~- 14K ae 7" 13440 13245 41:47 
| (i dltea bird (oageianni: age — 26 
| A ps. 13260 13193 + ‘Bl 
L BB. >| pp 89120 13245 — 94 
L ac. | 13210 13245 — 26 
| L c.e. 13130 sus as a 
: B is... | 18110 1319 ats 
| DS. Capper) s (2 |\K oe 13070 13245 _1:32 
K ac. | 183130 13245 — ‘87 
E ce. | 13260 13249 + 08 
' E ac. | 13260 13249 + -08 
E aen fi «T8860 13249 + 08 
On the Physical and Engineering Features of the River Mersey and 
Port of Liverpool. By GrorGE Fossery Lyster, M.Jnst.0.E., 
Lngineer-in-Chief to the Mersey Dock Estate. 
[Ordered by the General Committee to be printed in extenso.] 
LIveRPOOL, with its river and docks, is such an important factor in the 
history of the world, and has so largely contributed towards England’s 
commercial greatness, that, though doubtless the subject is well known, 
it would be out of place to allow the visit of so distinguished a body as 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science to the city and 
its surroundings to pass without briefly submitting to them something of 
the history, physical conditions, and progressive development of the port. 
Although the Bay of Liverpool is open to the north and west, there- 
fore at times subject to very heavy gales from those quarters, nevertheless, 
