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Hydro graphical Surveying: A Description of Means and Methods Employed in Constructing Marine Charts

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THE fourth edition of this work on hydro-graphical surveying differs but slightly from its predecessor, the main text being practically untouched, and the only important changes being the addition of several articles on newer surveying methods and experimental devices which had been introduced in the years immediately preceding the war.

Hydro graphical Surveying: A Description of Means and Methods Employed in Constructing Marine Charts.

By the late Rear-Admiral Sir William J. L. Wharton. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged by Admiral Sir Mostyn Field. Pp. xii + 570. (London: John Murray, 1920.) Price 30s. net.

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Hydro graphical Surveying: A Description of Means and Methods Employed in Constructing Marine Charts . Nature 105, 576–577 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105576a0

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