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TN a general text on surveying, as is pointed out by the author of one of these books, there is little room for originality except in treatment. Regarded as a branch of mathematics or as a conventional system of making, recording and plotting earth measurements, the subject is one which demands strict adherence to well–established rules. The improvements in instruments made possible by better designs and by increasing precision of manufacture whereby the degree of accuracy has risen from 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 30,000, cause changes to take place such as the substitution, in certain cases, of traversing for the more laborious method of triangulation.
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By the late Prof. David Clark. (Text Books of Civil Engineering.) Vol. 1: Plane Surveying. Third Edition, revised and enlarged by James Clendinning. Pp. xvi + 620. (London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1940.) 27s. 6d. net.
(2) Engineering Surveys
By Harry Rubey Prof. George Edward Lommel Prof. Marion Wesley Todd. (Engineering Science Series.) Revised edition. Pp. xv + 322 + 142. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.) 15s. net.
(3) Route Surveying
By Prof. George Wellington Pickels Prof. Carroll Carson Wiley. Second edition. Pp. xv + 427. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1939.) 21s. net.
(4) Introduction to Mine Surveying
By W. W. Staley. Pp. vii + 276. (Stanford University, Calif.: Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 21s. 6d. net.
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(1) Plane and Geodetic Surveying for Engineers (2) Engineering Surveys (3) Route Surveying (4) Introduction to Mine Surveying. Nature 148, 152 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148152a0
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