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404 HERBERT EDQELL HUNT. [Obituary. HERBERT EDGELL HUNT, born on the25th of November, 1847, was the son of Mr. George Lewis Hunt, of Westminster. After passing through the Applied Sciences Department of King's College, London, he was from 1866 to 1870 with Mr. James B. Walton,under whom he made surveys for the Ashby and Nuneaton Railway, the Romiley, Stockport and Manchester Railway,andseveralsmallerlines for the London andNorth Western and Midland Companies. He then served for two years under Mr. WilliamClarke on theWhitchurchandTattenhall Railway i n Shropshireand on theBristolandNorth Somerset Railway...

406 WEBB ON COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVES. SECTION 111.-MACHINERY 7 JUNE, 1899. `` Compound Locomotives." By FRANIS WILLIAM E B B , M. Inst. C.E. W For many years the weight andof passenger trains had speed been continually on the increase, with the inevitable result a demand of for more powerful and quicker-running locomotives to haul them. With theobject of meeting theserequirements, i n 1878 the Author turned his attention to the question of applying the compound system to the locomotive, and, as an experiment,converted one of the old engines belonging the London and North Western Railway to into a compound on the Mallet plan, which he worked for about five years on the Ashby and Nuneaton branch...

76 KING ON ARLEY TUNNEL : Railway Paper No. 41 Arley Tunnel: Remedial Works following Subsidence " t by CHRISTOPHER WALLIS KING, A.M.I.C.E. SYNOPSIS The Paper describes the serious settlement of a portion of Arley tunnel, in the London Midland Region of British Railways, and the steps taken to restore satisfactory conditionsfor the runningof traffic. The tunnel was built in about 1862, without an invert, and in groundwhich loses its bearing capacity when affected by water ; colliery workings have been proceeding on either side of the tunnel beyond the protective `` pillar...

DISCUSSION ON BO-PEEP AND ARLEY TUNNELS 93 Discussion The Authors presented their Papers with the aid of lantern slides. Mr V. A. M. Robertson remarked on the importance of regular and detailed inspection of tunnels and of permanent way. The Divisional Engineer had had a responsible job in connexion with the Bo-Peep tunnel, as had the inspector, and neither of them hadfailed. It was fortunate that when the movement had started a t Bo-Peep, there had been a research section a t Waterloo whosesolebusiness had been to find out the cause of the trouble ; it was also fortunatethat one of the staff had had previous experience of cast-iron tunnels ; so it had been decided that, in order to get the job done as quickly as possible-summer traffic had to be resumed in June 1950-the quickest, cheapest, and safest way of doing the job was to put a 26-foot-diameter cast-irontunnel inside the old brick one...

OBITUARY 393945 hewasin steamerpiers at LochClashandBadentarbet.From control of arterial drainage works in West and Central Scotland and during this time deepened and widened 17 miles of the River Kelvin and 15 miles of Allan Water. Altogether 160 miles of watercourses were improved, to the benefit of 16 OOO acres of agricultural land. After office reorganization in 1945 Waddell was appointedSenior Civil Engineer (Civil Service grading) in control of all arterial drainage works in 275 OOO Scotland, vetting contracts to the value of E60 OOO a year, with a further spent annuallyon works carriedout by the drainage engineering staff...

71 04 DISCUSSION Time ratio in radial flow sedimentation tanks M. S. CLEMENTS & A. F. M. KHATTAB Dr R. P. March, A. H. S. Waters and Partners Experiments carried out on model tanks at Birmingham Universitys and elsewhere have shown that even quite small density differences between influent and effluent can radically influence the flow pattern. Surface streaming similar to that obtained in the Authors' experiments without a baffle can be achieved by having a relatively warm influent. The usual bottom flow density current is easily demonstrated if a dense influent having a high suspended solids concentration is used, without the necessity of providing baffles...

364 CHARLES BERNARD BAKER. (Memoirs. MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS. MR.CHARLES BERNARDBAEER, second son of W. Baker, M.D., of Derby, was born in 1832, and waseducated at the grammar schools of Derby and of Stamford. In 1850 he became a pupil of Mr. W. H. Barlow, V.P.R.S., Past-PresidentInst. C.E., and remained in the same office asanassistantuntil 1855. He then joined the staff of Messrs. Liddell and Gordon, by whom he was employed as an assistant on the Leicester and Hitchin extension of the Midland railway, and afterwardsacted for one year as resident engineer on the Wimbledon and Epsom branch of the London and South-Western system, for Messrs...

PATERSON ON A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT O F TABLE BAY HARBOUR. 419 was submitted to the Union government and was accepted as the pattern for the futuredevelopment of docking facilities in Table Bay. The progress of the work is reviewed in the Paper, and the proposals made, in 1935, for a larger new basin, 6,000 feet long and 2,220 feet wide are described. The construction programme is outlined. With the copzpletion of the Sturrock graving dock, the port of Cape Town was fully equipped as one of the most up-to-date ports in the world and was of inestimable valueto the Allies during the War...

418 PATERSON ON A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TABLE BAY HARBOUR. Paper No. 5586. 'c A Short History af the Development of Table Bay Harbour." ERICPATERSON, O.B.E., M.C., B.Sc.(Eng.), M.I.C.E. By DAVID (Ordered by the Councilto be published in abstract form.)? AFTER reviewing the various attempts from 1656 onwards to afford protection to shipping calling at the Cape, the Author describes the scheme proposed by Sir John Coode, in 1859, for the provision of two basins near the Chavonne battery and the construction of a rubble breakwater 3,360 feet inlength, on their north side...

ROAD SURVEYS:--LONDON TO LIVERPOOL. 245 present rate o travelling in wheel-carriages;--2, To introduce a more perfect construction and shape of the road;--3. To establish a safe and commodious packet-station;--4. To discover means of enabling the mail-coach by the shore road to arrive at the packet-station about two hours earlier ;--and after perambulating the entire district, and causing the necessary surveys to be made, I delivered to the General Post Office maps, sections and reports, showing in what manner these several objects might best be accomplished...