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Chairman Brinkkrhoi^^ — Any remarks or discussion on 

 this subject? Before we adjourn, permit me to say that our 

 program for to-morrow is so full that we must start at 8:30 

 A. M. instea-d of 9 :00. / 



If there is no objection, we will adjourn until 8 :oo o'clock this 

 evening. 



THURSDAY EVENING SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order at 8 :oo P. M. by President 

 DarnalL 



PrKSide:nt Darnai,!, — The first paper on the program this 

 evening is ''Salt-Marsh Drainage Problems," by Mr. C. C. Ver- 

 meule, of East Orange, New Jersey. 



Those of us who know something about this salt-marsh drain- 

 age problem know that Mr. Vermeule probably knows more 

 about it from an engineering standpoint than any other man in 

 New Jersey, and I am sure you will all be glad to hear from him. 



Tide Marsh Drainagfe in New Jersey. 



BY C. C. VERMKUIvE, CONSUIvTiNG e:nGINEe:R. 

 WORK 01^ SURVKY. 



In 19 1 6 it becam-e a part of my official duties as consulting 

 engineer of the Geological Survey to investigate and report upon 

 the practicability of draining^ and utilizing our tide marshes. 

 The survey long endeavored to keep this matter before the 

 people of the State by successive investigations and reports. The 

 first important discussion of the subject was by the late Dr. Geo. 

 H. Cook, in the annual report for 1869. He reviewed what had 

 already been done in the vicinity of Salem and elsewhere along 

 Delaware Bay and River, and also gave data concerning the 

 remarkably effective drainage of Harlem Meer, in Holland and 

 the Fens in England. From time to time thereafter he and 



