A Theory of the Water Wave

While studying the vertical circulation of the water in the Charles River Basin, near Boston, Mass., the write r thought that there must be a simple theory of wave action, and so has undertaken to find that theory, the results of his conclusions being contained in the following paper. No attempt has been made to go into the deeper mathematical problems connected with the theory; only a general statement that may be useful to engineers is given here. The writer has not been able to do much experimental work; but has secured his data largely from a paper by Captain D. D. Gaillard, now Lieutenant-Colonel, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. Captain Gaillard's paper contains a large amount of information, obtained from his own experiments and from other sources.