Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . nstitution of Naval Archi-tects, Vol. XLIII. 4to. 1901. The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vols. XVII. and XVIII. Nos. 1-4. Institution—Sixteenth Annual Report, 1901-2. Experiments with Ionized Air. By C. Barus. 4to. of Arts—Journal for May, 1902. 8vo. Tacchini, Prof. P. Hon. Mem. (the Author)—Memorie della Societa degliSpettroscopisti Italiani, Vol. XXXI. Disp. 4. 4to. 1902. United Service Institution, Royal—Journal for May,
Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . nstitution of Naval Archi-tects, Vol. XLIII. 4to. 1901. The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vols. XVII. and XVIII. Nos. 1-4. Institution—Sixteenth Annual Report, 1901-2. Experiments with Ionized Air. By C. Barus. 4to. of Arts—Journal for May, 1902. 8vo. Tacchini, Prof. P. Hon. Mem. (the Author)—Memorie della Societa degliSpettroscopisti Italiani, Vol. XXXI. Disp. 4. 4to. 1902. United Service Institution, Royal—Journal for May, 1902. 8vo. United States Department of Agriculture—Experiment Station Record, Vol. 7, 8. 8vo. Velocity on Lake Erie. 4to. 1902. Verein zur Beforderung des Gewerbfleisses in Preussen—Verhandlungen, 1902,Heft 5. 8vo. Vienna, Imperial Geological Institute—Verhandlungen, 1902, Nos. 3-6. , Philosophical Society of—Bulletin, Vol. XIV. pp. 179-204. Western Society of Engineers—Journal, Vol. VII. No. 2. 8vo. Society—Report of the Council for 1901. 8vo. 1902.] Sir B. Baker on The Nile Dams and Reservoir. 185 WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, Friday, June 6, 1902. The Prince of Wales, ,Vice-Patron, in the Chair. Sir Benjamin Baker, ,Past President Institution of Civil Engineers. The Nile Dams and Reservoir. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, last Christmas, when riding across the hot anddusty desert between Aswan and the Nile Reservoir works, inci-dentally remarked that, after all, there was no climate like Englands;and as for rain, why, it did good and hurt nobody. Glancing aroundat the apparently limitless desert on all sides of us, the hills andvalleys, beautiful in form, but doomed for all time to remain ofuniform burnt-brick hue, bare of trees, and of the many-colouredgrowths which adorn a rainy country, one could not but reflect howpuny were the efforts of m
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