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DURING the past three or four years the bathymetrical survey of 554 of the fresh-water lochs of Scotland has been completed under the direction of Sir John Murray and Mr. Laurence Pullar. This practically means that all the Scottish fresh-water lochs have now been surveyed, except some small ones on which no boats could be found. A large staff has been employed during the course of the work—about forty voluntary and paid assistants, in addition to a great many boatmen and other workmen. Up to the present time, the charts of 180 lochs, with descriptions, have been published in the Geographical Journal, and arrangements have now been made for the publication I in the same journal during the present year of the descriptions and charts of the thirty-three lochs in the Ness basin. This will complete the publication of the obserations made in the more important lochs. The results obtained in the case of the remaining 340 lochs will be published, as a special volume, by the Royal Geographical Society in about eighteen months from this date, the charts being at present in the course of printing by Mr. J. G. Bartholomew.
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See Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xli. pp. 367, 599, 677, and 813; vol. xlv., p. 262; Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxv., pp. 1, 401, 593, 60, 637, 967; Geogr. Journ., vol. xxiv., p. 429.
"Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-water Lochs of Scotland.” Under the direction of Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Laurence Pullar . Part xii., The Lochs of the Lochy Basin (Geogr. Journ., vol. xxviii., pp. 592–615; with 8 plates of maps).
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Survey of Scottish Lakes . Nature 75, 470–472 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075470a0
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