Discussion of the paper of E.L. Corthell, M. Am. C.E. on the South Pass jetties : reviewing statements made to the U.S. Congress in 1885, respecting the jetties at South Pass and at Galveston by General John Newton and Colonels Wm. E. Merrill and R.S. Mansfield, U.S. engineers : read at a meeting of the Society, May 6, 1885 / cby James B. Eads.