BEHACH EROSION LITERATURE 
The third national conference on Coastal Engineering, sponsored joint- 
ly by the Council on Wave Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, with support also given by the Northeastern Section of the ASCE, 
the Boston Society of Civil Engineers and the Boston Section of the ASME, 
was held at Boston, Massachusetts in October 1952. The Proceedings of this 
conference published by the Council on Wave Research as well as those of the 
two earlier conferences (see Bulletin of the Beach Erosion Board, Vol. 6, 
Nos. 1 and )), may be ordered from Professor J. We Johnson, Waves Council, 
25 Hesse Hall, University of California, Berkeley 4, California. A fourth 
conference will be held in Chicago on 29-31 October 1953. 
The contents of the proceedings of the third conference are as follows: 
Part I 
BASIC OCEANOGRAPHIC INFORMATION 
Chapter 1 
Waves and Breakers in Shoaling Water, H. W. Iversen 
Chapter 2 
The Solitary Wave, James W. Daily and Samuel C. Stephan, Jr. 
Chapter 3 
Accuracy of Hydrographic Surveying in and Near the Surf Zone, Thorndike 
Saville, Jr. and Joseph M. Caldwell 
Chapter 
Environmental Aspects of the Ebb Side and Flood Side of Tidal Estuaries As 
a Factor in Harbor Locations, Francis E. Elliott, Willis L. Tressler, 
and William H. Myers 
Chapter 5 
The Salt Wedge, Harlow G. Farmer and George W. Morgan 
Chapter 6 
Circulation in Estuaries, Bostwick H. Ketchum 
Chapter 7 
Notes on The Generation and Growth of Ocean Waves Under Wind Action, 
Gerhard Neumann 
Chapter 8 
The Theory of the Refraction of a Short Crested Gaussian Sea Surface With 
Application to the Northern New Jersey Coast, Willard J. Pierson, Jr. 
John J. Tuttell, and John A. Woolley 
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