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• Its Circular to all the members of the association.
• Communication by the Royal Danish departement [!] of maritime works. Copenhagen.

• Its British organising committee. 2d circular and Annexes to 2d circular.
• Its Programme of questions and communications.

• Its local organizing committee. Monthly bulletin, no.1-3, Dec. 1911-Feb. 1912.
• Its Local organizing committee. 2d circular ...
• Its Subjects accepted ... for the deliberations ...
• Its summary of proceedings.

• 1. Rapid increase in the dimensions of steamers and sailing vessels. Draught of water of these. Effect of the increase on the harbours, canals and approaches. 4 v.-
• -2. The use of liquid fuel for purposes of navigation. 2 v.-
• -3. The transport of cargo by "ferryboats". 4 v.-
• -4. Report of the most recent works carried out in the principal seaports. 13 v.-
• -5. Responsibility of ship owners in regard to private parties or public administrations. 3 v.-
• -6. Coast signals, lightships, wireless telegraphy. 5 v.-
• -7. Measures adopted by the different governments for the protection of ocean navigation. Bounties, reduced railway tariffs for merchandise intended to be transported by sea. 5 v.

• 1. Appliances for repairs (dry docks, floating docks, lifting apparatus, etc.) 7 v.-
• -2. Best types of sea-going vessels for transporting freight, in their relations to inland navigation ports and waterways. 1 v.-
• -3. Application of reinforced concrete to maritime works. Means of assuring its preservation. 6 v.--[4 ?] Report on the most recent works carried out in the principal seaports. 6 v.

• 1. question: Improvement of the mouths of rivers discharging into tideless seas. 8 v.-
• -2. question: Progress in methods of propulsion of vessels. Effect of these on the channels and harbours. 7 v.-
• -3. question: Review of the various methods of working and administration of the seaports. Their influence on the development of trade. 6 v.-
• -4. question: Conditions affecting the force of waves and the construction of breakwaters to resist them. 9 v.

• 1. question: Fishery harbours and harbour of refuge for the coasting trade. 5 v.-
• -2. question: Inland maritime ports and means of access thereto. Their advantages. Economical and technical study. 9 v.-
• -3. question: Construction of ports on sandy shores. 6 v.-
• -4. question: General conditions for the security of maritime navigation. 6 v.-
• -5. question: Hydrographic exploration of the seas. 4 v.

• Preface.--General information.--Minutes of sessions: Official inaugural session of the Congress. First section--Inland navigation. Second section--Ocean navigation.--Reception and excursions.--Excursions in the Netherlands.

• 1. Advances made in the study and the construction of dams, in the disposition of the apparatus for the intake of water and of the adjoining navigation works.-
• -2. Technical and commercial working of waterways. Organization of transportations--craft--incomdes and products of all kinds, rates, talls, tariffs, electric power, irrigation, etc.

• 1. Disposition, dimensions, arrangement and equipment of the river ports for inland navigation.--Connection with the railway net. Customs and sanitary arrangements.--Protection against ice.-
• -2. Steps taken during the recent years in order to reduce the periods of closure on canals and canalized rivers.

• 1. a(Quays of great depth in tideless seas; cost.\b) Breakwaters or jetties in tideless seas; cost.-
• -2. Fishing harbours.--General designs and dispositions for their realization.

• 1. Large maritime canals.--Principal dimensions.--Mainteance of the depths.--Statistics of traffic.-
• -2. Reception and storage of liquid fuel (metallic and reinforced cement reservoirs).--Precautions against fire.--Distribution of liquid fuel in the ports.-
• -3. Intensive suction dredging, namely in swelling seas.

• 1. Improvement of rivers by regulation and dredging and if needs be, by reservoirs. Determination of the case in which it is preferable in resort to such works rather than to canalization or the construction of a lateral canal.

• 2. Dimensions to be assigned, in any given country, to canals of heavy traffic. Principles of operating. Dimensions and equipment of the locks.

• 3. Intermediate and terminal ports. Best methods for combining, facilitating and harmonizing the transfer of freight between waterways and railways.

• 1. Application of reinforced concrete to hydraulic works.

• 2. Dimensions to be given to maritime canals. (Technical point of view. Probable dimensions of the sea-going vessels of the future)

• 3. Mechanical equipment of ports.

• 1. High-powered dredges and means for removing rock under water.

• 2. Report on the most recent works constructed at the more important sea ports and especially on those relating to breakwaters. Applications of reinforced concrete; means for insuring its preservation.

• 3. Bridges and ferry bridges; tunnels under waterways used for ocean navigation.--Economic and technical study.

• 4. Safety and navigation. Lighted buoys.

• 1st Section: Inland navigation. Questions.
• 1. Infiltration of water under the foundations and round retaining works and through the lengthwise embankments of navigable waterways. Under-pressures. Means of preventing or reducing infiltrations and opposing their destrictive action.-
• -2. Regularisation and canalisation works of rivers and streams. Results obtained, more especially as regards the new greadients and the alterations in the vertical and horizontal configuration of the bottom, and also the movements of solid matters swept along.-
• -3. Progress made in recent years in the dispositions and exploitation of navigation works on canals and canalised rivers, and also in the arrangement of their access.

• Communications:
• 1. Canals serving both the needs of navigation and agriculture. Reciprocal utilisation of navigation canals for irrigation and irrigation water for feeding canals.-
• -2. Inland ports: general dispositions. Types of quays, particularly in rivers with great variations of water level. Types of mechanical equipment for loading and unloading vessels. Protection against ice. Rational distributior of winter ports on rivers with intense ice drifts. Sheds and warehouses. Connection with the railway. Establishment and operation costs.-
• -3. Study of hydrotechnical questions by means of laboratory researches on reduced scale models. Comparision of the results of such researches with those of direct observation of the natural phenomena, with a view of ascertaining how far the law of similitude is true.

• 2d Section: Ocean navigation. Questions:
• 1. Railway lines and funicular railways giving access to ports; railway installations in ports.-
• -2. Protection of coasts against the sea, with or without preponderating coastal drift of materials.

• Communications:
• 1. Administration of commercial ports. Organisation of the various services of construction, maintenance and exploitation. Results obtained.-
• -2. The use of concrete and reinforced concrete in maritime navigation works. Preservation of such works in salt water.-
• -3. Designs for the working of closing-appliances of dry docks and locks (boat-gates, rolling gates, sliding gates and mitre-gates) Electrical appliances for the automatic working of gates and their accessories.

• v. A-H, J-M: latitudes (north and south.

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• Section I. Inland navigation. Subjects 1-6--[v. 2]
• Section II. Ocean navigation. Subjects 1-5.