Excerpt from The Society of Engineers (Incorporated): Transactions for 1913 From 1897 until the present time he has practised as a civil and consulting engineer, his practice including gas works, waterworks, sea walls, bridges, roads, and outfall sewers. Besides the design and construction of various engineering works, he has been engaged in the promotion of and opposition to private bills in Parliament, in arbitrations with reference to transfer of gas undertakings to local authorities, in making valuations for rating purposes, and similar matters. 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.