Abstracts and annotations are given for 205 published reports. dated 1984 and earlier, on the engineering and process response aspects of tidal inlet systems. This report has been compiled to update the General Investigations of Tidal Inlets Report 4 to the present decade. Emphasis is placed on coastal processes at tidal inlets. The inlet back-bay regions have been viewed as interrelated systems which are dynamically dependent upon each other. Therefore, a perturbation of any part of the system will partially dictate the response of the remaining part. (Author).