(3) Hydraulics Research

ALTHOUGH hydraulic model-experimentation was first developed in England by Osborne Reynolds and Vernon Harcourt, the art has advanced little in this country, where no large hydraulic research station—like those in India, the United States of America, and the Continent—yet exists. This omission is now to be met by opening a Station, having an area of 90 acres, at Howbery Park, near Wallingford, about 12 miles south of Oxford. Work is to start on the Station in August 1950, and the staff, who are at present working in the Tidal Model Shed at Teddington (kindly loaned to us by the National Physical Laboratory), will move to the new Station in 1951.