Engineers and Engineering Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...SOCIETY or CIVIL ENG1NEERs. Transactions, October--December, 1897. FRoM CHIEF or ENGINEERs, UNITED STATEs ARMY. Annual Report, 1897, Six Parts. FRoM NORTH or ENGLAND INsTITuTE or M. AND M. ENGINEERs. An Account of the Strata of Northumberland and Durham as Proved by Borings and Sinkings. NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS. OBSERVATIONS IN GREENLAND. At the Conversational Meeting, held April 9, 1898, Dr. Henry E. Wetherill, surgeon to the Peary relief expedition, exhibited and explained a series of lantern slides illustrating the geology, natural history, and ethnology of Greenland. He pointed out the racial difierences between the Eskimos of different parts of Greenland; in some sections there is a considerable admixture of Scandinavian blood. Habits of life, methods of house construction, etc., were briefly outlined. Some of the weapons and accoutrements were also shown. Many illustrations of the great glaciers of Greenland were exhibited, and their relation to the formation of the icebergs of the North Atlantic pointed out. Dr. Wetherill also exhibited several forms of compact scientific apparatus especially adapted for use in very cold regions; also some miscellaneous apparatus for the preparation of food and for exigencies of travel. ERRATA. Attention is called to the following errors in volume XV, No. 1, of the Proceedings: Page 4, line 1s, $946,414,665 should be $946,314,665. Pge 42, the title of the cut, read 10,000 instead of 1000. Page 69, line 2 from bottom, the denominator of the fraction should be 1 + 2 cos' 45. Page 76, line 2 from bottom, read Mueller Breslau for Mueller of Breslau. from this journal, provided due credit be given the PROCEEDINGS. PROCEEDINGS THE ENGINEERS' CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA. ORGANIZED DECEMBER 17, 1877....