Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 35: January, 1909 During the year, 25 meetings have been held as follows: At the Annual Meeting, 2; at the Annual Convention, 5; and 18 other meet ings held at the Society House. At these meetings there were presented 17 formal papers, 8 of which were illustrated with lantern slides, besides which there were 4 topical discussions and 3 lectures, 2 of which were illustrated. There were also 7 papers published in Proceedings which were not presented at any meeting of the Society. The number of members and others who took part in the preparation of, or discussion of, these papers was 220. The Fortieth Annual Convention was held at Denver, Colo., and the meetings, excursions and entertainments were well attended, instructive, and enjoyable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.