Text-book of Topographical and Geographical Surveying

Abstract

THE art of topographical surveying was almost invariably known in this country until recent years as “military topography,” a phrase which may be taken to mean not that the topography of a region presented special features to the soldier, but that little attention was paid to topographical surveying of any sort until military necessity arose. The fact that interest in and knowledge of surveying of this kind is no longer confined to the Army is largely due to the active influence of the Royal Geographical Society in London and in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, as a result of which an increasing number of intending travellers, explorers, naturalists, and colonists go through some training in surveying before setting out for distant parts, but it is scarcely less due to the work of the Royal Engineers in constantly developing and testing new instruments and methods in the field, and in making the results of trial and experiment generally accessible.

Text-book of Topographical and Geographical Surveying.

By Major C. F. Close Pp. iv + 288. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office. Price 3s. 6d.