Abstract
THE Indian Survey Report for 1915-16 contains nothing of special interest either in the department of exploration or in that of science, but it is a good record of solid work carried out under the direction of Sir Sidney Burrard, curtailed in certain branches by the exigencies of war service, but on the whole a most satisfactory report. The progress made in the topographical mapping of the huge area of India in the ten years preceding 1916 shows that between one-fourth and one-fifth of that area has been completed on various scales and by various methods up to date, but one is left in doubt as to the comparative values of the revision necessary in the mapping of an older date than 1905. The whole of India (or very nearly the whole) must have been mapped by then, on scales which are much the same as those now adopted for various classes of land area. Surely very little revision is necessary in those barren areas (within the frontier) that were mapjed on the smaller scales. On the other hand, much of the 1 in. per mile mapping must have required actual re-survey. The area remaining to be mapped amounts to 1-382767 square miles (or thereabouts?), so the Survey of India has still a career before it.
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H., T. The Survey of India. Nature 100, 254–255 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100254b0
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