65. See Minutes of the First Meeting of the Shore Protection Board dated Dec. 22, 1930. 



66. From correspondence from Capt. Frank Bowman, Recorder for the BEB, to Chief of 

 Engineers, Mar. 6, 1937. 



67. "Beach Erosion Board New Wave Tank," Shore and Beach, July 1937, pp. 86-87. 



68. Notes of Dean M. P. O'Brien on tlie early years of the BEB, p. 8. See also, 

 MORROUGH P. O'BRIEN, "Estuary Tidal Prisms Related to Entrance Areas," Civil 

 Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 1931, pp. 738-739. 



69. Notes of Dean M. P. O'Brien, op. cit., p. 8. See also, MORROUGH P. O'BRIEN, "A 

 Report on Sand Movement and Beach Erosion Along the Pacific Coast of the United 

 States," Mar. 1931, p. 38. 



70. Interim Report of Beach Erosion Board, U.S. Army, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 

 Washington, D.C., Apr. 1933, par. 5/10. 



71. See, for example, the semimonthly progress report on the New Jersey field research 

 dated Aug. 1-15, 1930. 



72. Minutes of the 26th Meeting of the BEB held Nov. 1, 1935. 



73. Annual Report for the Year 1931-1932, National Research Council, Division of 

 Geology and Geography, App. 1, p. 1. 



74. Minutes of the Second Meeting of the BEB held Mar. 18 and 19, 1931. 



75. Ibid. 



76. Ibid. 



77. House of Representatives Document No. 204, 72d Congress, 1st session, "Fort Fisher, 

 N.C." Jan. 5, 1932. (The actual report is dated Dec. 29, 1931.) 



78. LT. COL. C. H. CUNNINGHAM, "Shore Damage and Shore Protection on the 

 Connecticut Shoreline," ^nnua/ Report of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, 

 Incorporated, 1939, p. 79. 



79. Minutes of the Fifth Meeting of the BEB held Oct. 22, 1931. 



80. LT. COL. C. H. CUNNINGHAM, op. cit., p. 79. 



81. This information obtained in discussion with George M. Watts, Chief of the Engineering 

 Division, CERC. 



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