. Guide leaflet. REPRINTED FROM NATURAL HISTORY The Journal of The American Museum of Natural History Copyright, 1934NEW YORK, N. Y. Vol. XXXIV ^ No. 2 March-April1934 f. From Ewing Galloway, ff. Y. Lower Manhattan, New York, 1933; Left, Hudson River Piers; Right, East River Piers NEW PIERS FOR GIANT SHIPS The Geologic and Engineering Problems Involved in the Construction of New1100-Foot Piers in the Port of New York Ai-e Briefly Considered By CHESTER A. REEDS Curator of Geology, American Museum of Natural History To John McKenzie, Commissioner of Docks of the City of New York, Francis T. OKee
. Guide leaflet. REPRINTED FROM NATURAL HISTORY The Journal of The American Museum of Natural History Copyright, 1934NEW YORK, N. Y. Vol. XXXIV ^ No. 2 March-April1934 f. From Ewing Galloway, ff. Y. Lower Manhattan, New York, 1933; Left, Hudson River Piers; Right, East River Piers NEW PIERS FOR GIANT SHIPS The Geologic and Engineering Problems Involved in the Construction of New1100-Foot Piers in the Port of New York Ai-e Briefly Considered By CHESTER A. REEDS Curator of Geology, American Museum of Natural History To John McKenzie, Commissioner of Docks of the City of New York, Francis T. OKeefe, Chief Engineer,and Alfred J. Duggan, Resident Engineer, I express my thanks for their kind cooperation, and for the loanof various charts, sketches, and photographs prepared by the Dock Department in the course of the investi-gation of the physical conditions of the rock in the site for the new piers. I also express my gratitude tothe Board of Trustees, to Dr. F. Trubee Davison, President, and to Dr. George H. Sherwood, Director, ofthe American Museum of Natural History, for allowing me time from my duties as Curator of Geology,to make this investigation. To M
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