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pending full publication of the results a brief account of this work is 

 given. But, concurrently with this work, a detailed questionnaire was 

 prepared and circulated throughout this country, Europe and America. 

 It has been accorded gratifying support, and valuable opinions are now 

 available from many British designers engaged both in communication and 

 in heavy plant engineering. In addition, the views of the design depart- 

 ments of selected European firms are included. An organised German 

 view-point is made available by the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt 

 through the co-operation of Herr Ober. Reg. Rat Dr. W. Steinhaus, and 

 important proposals of a far-reaching character are put forward in his 

 report. Comments and suggestions are made by Thos. Spooner, Esq., 

 Chairman of the American Society for Testing Materials, by R. L. Sandford, 

 Esq., of the National Bureau of Standards, U.S.A., by M. Jouaust, of the 

 Laboratoire Centrale de l'Electricite at Paris, and by other authorities. 



Reports of Committees (12.30). 



Afternoon. 

 Visit to Pleasure Beach. 



Friday, September 11. 



Mr. W. A. Stanier. — Railway locomotive development (10. o). 



Mr. Ashton Davies. — L.M.S. traffic problems (11.0). 



Mr. H. J. Deane and Mr. E. Latham. — Preservation of sea beaches (12.0). 



The movement of beach material is discussed generally in its relation to 

 the run of the flood tides and the general effect, by way of restriction, of the 

 development of coastal defence works on such travel. The question of the 

 desirability of restricting or prohibiting the removal of beach material is 

 also dealt with and instances are given of prohibitions contained in the 

 bye-laws of certain Catchment Boards against such removal. 



The paper is not a technical treatise on the design and execution of 

 works of coastal protection but gives, in some detail, reviews of some 

 instances of more than usual interest where difficult problems have had 

 to be solved or where failures have occurred in existing defence works. 



Reference is made to the causes and remedies adopted in certain cases 

 and some comprehensive descriptions of the conditions met with or troubles 

 overcome in such well-known instances as Blundellsands, Swanage Bay, 

 Lowestoft, Overstrand (Norfolk), Littlestone-on-Sea (Kent), Sidmouth, 

 Eastbourne, Shoreham and Lancing, Rye Bay (Kent) and Blue Anchor 

 (Somerset). 



The paper is illustrated by a plan of the coast at Blundellsands, one or 

 two typical cases of designs of sea walls and groynes, reproductions of 

 photographs of defence works referred to and by lantern slides. 



Mr. H. Banks. — Blackpool coast defence works. 



Visit to Preston Grid. 



Saturday, September 12. 



Excursion to Manchester Corporation Waterworks, Haweswater. 



