Abstract
STUDENTS of geography will find in this book an extremely useful account of those methods of earth and land measurement which provide the foundation on which most of their work is based. The procedure and the general results of various operations in surveying are described, but no attempt is made to furnish detailed instructions for executing a survey. These are to be sought in manuals of surveying. On the other hand, the author has provided a clear and comprehensive account not only of the simpler methods of topographical surveying, but also of the more elaborate operations which are requisite where large tracts of country are concerned, and, moreover, of those refined operations which aim at determining the precise shape and size and the physical character of the earth.
Maps and Survey.
By A. R. Hinks. Pp. xvi + 206 + xxiv plates. (Cambridge University Press, 1913.) Price 6s. net.
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L., H. An Introduction to Cartography . Nature 92, v–vi (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092va0
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