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TO deal with a subject such as river engineering within the limits of a small-sized text-book necessarily involves a considerable degree of compression, so that the author has only been able to touch lightly on certain aspects, which might with advantage have been treated at greater length. The explanation of the action of flow at river bends, for example, is rather too superficial to be altogether satisfactory. As a fairly representative outline of the various methods of treatment adopted for the regulation of river channels, the book may serve as a useful introduction to a more detailed study of a difficult science.
River Engineering: Principles and Practice
F.
Johnstone-Taylor
By. Second edition enlarged. Pp. xxii + 119. (London: The Technical Press, Ltd., 1938.) 4s. 6d. net.
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C., B. Engineering. Nature 144, 194 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144194e0
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