OEDINAKY MEETING* 

 David Howakd, Esq., D.L. (Vice-Peesident), in the Chaik. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed, and 

 the following elections took place : — 



Member : — Jame^ Christie Reid, Esq., F.R.G.S., Chislehurst. 

 Associate : — J. Martin Tilby, Esq., Loudon. 



THE WATER SUPPLY OF JERUSALEM. By Eiinest 

 W. GuRNEY Masterman, Diploma in Public Health, 

 Cambridge. 



The Secretary (Professor Edward Hull).— As you may 

 recollect w^hen a paper was read on the water supply of Jerusalem,! 

 by General Sir Charles Wilson, which gave very full details of the 

 recent operations carried on by the Turkish Government for the 

 supply of the city, he took great exception to the work because it 

 did not fulfil its ol)ject, i.e., of giving the people of Jeru.^alem ;i 

 proper supply of water ; and when a copy of the paper was sent to 

 Dr. Gurney Masterman, who was out in Jerusalem professionally, 

 he took exception to Sir Charles Wilson's views, stating that the 

 supply was not unsatisfactory. This being so, as he was on the 

 spot and Sir Charles Wilson was only writing from information 

 that he had received, I thought it would be well to ask Dr. Master- 

 man to state, in writing, his views on the subject, and in what 



Monday, March 16th, 1903. 

 t Trans. Vict, hist.., vol. xxxiv, p. 11. 



