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THIS is the fifth report of the amalgamated Department of Surveys under the Government of India. It is divided into two parts with an appendix. Part I. gives a summary of the operations of the great trigonometrical, the topographical, and revenue survey parties; also of the geographical, geodetic, and tidal, and levelling operations. Part II. describes the operations at the Head-Quarters Offices, viz. the Surveyor-General's Office, the Revenue Survey Office, the Lithographic Office, the Photographic Office, and the Mathematical Instrument Department, all in Calcutta; and of the Trigonometrical Survey Office in Dehra Dun. Index charts, coloured maps, and sketches showing the present state of this very important department accompany this report; to which is prefixed, as frontispiece, a “Specimen of Heliogravure by Major Waterhouse's Process,” which invites the special attention of photographers and engravers. An appendix, separately paged, of 120 pages, completes the volume, and consists of extracts from the narrative report of the executive officers in charge of the survey parties and operations.
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The Indian Survey 1 . Nature 29, 360–362 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029360a0
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