REFERENCES AND OTHER NOTES 



1. In a paper entitled, "Coastal Erosion Problems and Planning," presented at the Annual 

 Meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Waterways Division Session, 

 Jan. 1942 and later reprinted in Shore and Beach, Oct. 1942, Vol. 10, No. 2, p. 36, 

 Dean Thorndike Saville stated, "The first really large scale attempt to study the 

 underlying factors concerning the causes of coastal erosion, and means for controlling 

 it, was undertaken by the State of New Jersey between 1922 and 1930." 



2. JOHN T. CUNNINGHAM, The New Jersey Shore, 1958, p. 114. 



3. Ibid, p. 50. 



4. Ibid, p. 101. 



5. Ibid, p. 52. 



6. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957, prepared by the 

 U.S. Bureau of the Census with the cooperation of the Social Science Research Record, 

 Washington, D.C., 1960, pp. A1-A16. 



7. This date was verified in a discussion with Prof. James E. Vance, Jr., Geography 

 Department, University of California, Berkeley. 



8. JOHN T. CUNNINGHAM, op. cit., p. 80. 



9. Since 1835, records of shoreline changes showed that, in fact, there had been a net loss 

 of land totaling some 2,000 acres. See NEW JERSEY BOARD OF COMMERCE AND 

 NAVIGATION, Report on the Erosion and Protection of the New Jersey Beaches, 

 1922, p. 5. 



10. Tlie "enemy" symbolism has not disappeared. COASTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH 

 CENTER, "Land Against the Sea," MP 4-64, U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, 

 Washington, D.C., May 1964, concludes with the following statement: "Our campaign 

 against the encroachment of the sea must be waged with the same care that we would 

 take against any other enemy threatening our boundaries." (p. 43). 



11. NEW JERSEY BOARD OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION, Report on the Erosion 

 and Protection of the New Jersey Beaches, 1922, p. 5. 



12. VICTOR GELINEAU, "Save the Golden Band of Ocean Beaches," Engineering 

 News-Record, Vol. 110, No. 24, June 1933, p. 765. 



13. JOHN T. CUNNINGHAM, op. cit., p. 18. 



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