370 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
5. FLroop LEVELs. 
(a) ‘ Floods in England and Wales, 1875,’ by G. J. Symons. Proc. Inst. 
Civil Eng., 1876. Paper No. 1464. 
(b) ‘ Floods of May, 1886,’ by W. Marriott and F. Gaster. O.7.R. Meteor. 
Soc., vol. xii, 1886, pp. 269-282. 
(c) ‘ Floods inthe West Midlands,’ byHenry Southall. Q.7.R.Meteor. Soc., 
vol. xxi, 1895, pp. 28-39. 
(d) ‘ November Floods of 1894 in the Thames Valley,’ by G. J. Symons 
and G. Chatterton. Q.7.R. Meteor. Soc., vol. xxi, 1895, pp. 189-206. 
These papers give details of the heights attained by certain rivers during 
floods, which can be taken as typical of the information of this character 
available. 
(e) ‘ Report on Thames Floods,’ by A. T. Doodson, and the ‘ Meteorological 
Conditions associated with High Tides in the Thames,’ by J. S. Dines, 
published by the Meteorological Office, Geophysical Memoir No. 47, 
1929. 
An investigation carried out after the disastrous floods in the Thames, 
January 6—7, 1928, as to the causes of such floods. 
6. LAND DRAINAGE. 
(a) The Land Drainage Act, 1930. 
Part II, section 5, provides for the preparation of maps of catchment 
areas. In certain cases these have already been prepared, under Capt. 
Withycombe, by the Ordnance Survey. 
Part V, section 43, p. 41, refers to ‘ powers of Drainage Boards to enter 
and survey lands.’ 
(b) ‘ Land Drainage in England and Wales,’ by J.C. A. Roseveare. Trans. 
Inst. Water Eng., vol. xxxvii, 1932. 
(c) ‘ Present Conditions of Arterial Drainage in some English Rivers,’ by 
R. F. Grantham. Proc. Inst. Civil Eng., 1916. Paper No. 4184. 
7. UNDERGROUND WATER. 
(a) Water Supply Memoirs and publications on Wells and Springs of certain 
counties, published by the Geological Survey of Great Britain.. These 
give records of sinkings and borings ; each volume, dealing with a 
particular county, includes a detailed bibliography. 
The Water Supply Memoirs include those of Berkshire and Oxon., Bucks 
and Herts, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Nottingham and Lincolnshire, London 
Wells, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, 
Sussex, Yorkshire (E.R.), Cambridge, Huntingdon and Rutland; and 
Memoirs on Wells and Springs of Somerset, Sussex, Leicester, Derby and 
Dorset have already been published. 
(b) Various papers published in scientific and technical journals, including 
especially the publications mentioned on pp. 415, 420, and 421 of 
this Report. 
8. RAINFALL. 
A short bibliography of papers relating to the rainfall of the British Isles 
is attached to the Memorandum on the British Rainfall Organization. 
