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THE extracts from the narrative reports of the Survey of India for the years 1902–3 are contained in a thin and attenuated volume of some eighty pages, which, as compared with previous reports, re presents the effects of Indian financial economy applied to one of its most interesting departments. A committee is now sitting somewhere in India to decide on the best method of increasing the efficiency of the Indian survey department from the point of view (amongst others) of the English expert. It may be doubted whether the Indian surveyor has much to learn from the English expert, excepting in the science of map reproduction; but it may be that the Indian financier will learn therefrom that the way to improve and develop a department is not to starve it under the pressure of each successive spasm of financial de pression, but to give consistent support to its work in the field and encourage the publication of such results as are of world-wide interest. Compare this half-starved production with the survey reports of North America, of Canada, of any Continental country, or even with the intermittent publications of South America, and it would really appear as if India ooffered no field for scientific research that was worth a descriptive record. The report is unworthy of the Government of India.
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H., T. The Survey of India 1 . Nature 72, 129–130 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072129b0
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