Service d'Études des grandes Forces hydrauliques (Région des Alpes)

Abstract

IN May of last year (vol. lxxviii., No. 2010) there were reviewed in these columns two volumes rendering an account of the initiation of a hydro-logical service in France, formed for the purpose of studying the rivers and watercourses of that country, which were capable of developing power for, and otherwise benefiting, industrial and agricultural pursuits. The purview of the inquiry was to be restricted, in the first instance, to the region of the Alps, to be extended later to the Pyrenees, and ultimately, no doubt, to include the Vosges and the hilly districts of the north and west. At the time of the issue of the volumes in question, the results of these investigations were only forthcoming in systematised form so far as the close of the year 1905, and operations had been confined to a certain portion of the Alpine watershed, the work being carried out under the supervision of two engineers, MM. de la Brosse and Tavernier, the former of whom reported on the basins of the Arve and the Isère, and the latter on the regions of the Durance and the Var.

Service d'Études des grandes Forces hydrauliques (Région des Alpes)

Tome iii. Résultats des Etudes et Travaux au 31 Décembre, 1907. Pp. 688; with maps, photographs, and diagrams. (French Ministry of Agriculture, 1908.)