TABLE 5.-HEIGHTS of WATER on the BAR at BILBAO 1873-1874-1875

TABLE 5.-HEIGHTS of WATER on the BAR at BILBAO 1873-1874-1875 in FEET (continued).

20 11.88

21 11.42

14.17
13.71 15.08 11.88 11.88
14.17 11.42 12.80 14.17
11.88 12.34

14.63 12.80 14.17 12.34 12.80 13.26

TABLE 5.-HEIGHTS of WATER on the BAR at BILBAO, 1873-1874-1875

TABLE 5.-HEIGHTS of WATER on the BAR at BILBAO 1873-1874-1875 in FEET (continued).

MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS.

MR. THOMAS WILLIAM DE BUTTS ARMSTRONG, late Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Central Provinces, India, second son of the late Rev. William C. Armstrong, M.A., of Moydow Rectory, County Longford, Ireland, was born in 1826, and having received a liberal education was at the age of fourteen sent to the college for Civil Engineers at Putney, where he remained about four years. Leaving it in August 1844 he obtained employment under Sir John Macneill, M. Inst. C.E., as assistant engineer on the Dublin and Cashel railway (now the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland), and afterwards in Sir J. Macneill's office, and on the Carlow railways. In 1845-6, during the railway mania, Mr. Armstrong, while still in the same service, was, in addition to other duties, much employed in giving evidence before Parliamentary committees in London. From the spring of 1846, for the space of about fifteen months, he served on railway works under the late Sir John Rennie, Past-President Inst. C.E., and under the Messrs. Leahy, of Cork. Mr. Armstrong was next employed on Government works in Ireland under the Commissioners of Public Works, and was for five years resident engineer under Mr. Frederic Barry, M. Inst. C.E., on several important navigation and arterial drainage works in the county of Mayo. These works were varied and important, and in their execution Mr. Armstrong displayed great energy and talent. He was at the same time endowed with genial and high social qualities, which rendered him deservedly popular. He, moreover, managed to combine business and pleasure, especially with regard to field sports, which conduced to his good health and spirits, and subsequently stood him and his companions in good stead on more than one occasion when he was a member of the Darien expedition. During the five years in which Mr. Armstrong was engaged on these navigation and arterial drainage works, he fully established his reputation as a Civil Engineer, and in 1853, when these works were drawing to a close, he accepted an appointment under the late Mr. Lionel Gisborne, and proceeded to Sweden to assist in getting up the surveys, designs, plans, and estimates for the south