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THE latest volume (vol. xviii.) of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India contains the records of astronomical observations for latitude extending over the last twenty years. It is, in effect, the continuation of vol. xi., and brings this particular department of Indian Survey statistics up to date. It consists chiefly of tabulated records; 543 pages alone in part ii. being absorbed by tables of astronomical latitudes. There is therefore nothing to offer in the way of remark or criticism on the great bulk of detail contained in this volume except congratulation on the completion of a work involving so much labour in compilation. It is, perhaps, the most interesting of the whole series of Great Trigonometrical Survey records, and the interest of it to the general reader lies in the preface, where Colonel Burrard, in plain and simple language, gives the reasons for the faith that is in him as regards the present position of geodetic work in India.
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H., T. Geodetic Surveys . Nature 79, 285–286 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079285a0
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