MAPS AND SURVEY— MADRAS 



Maps and Survey. By A. R. Hinks, M.A., F.R.S., Ass'ntant Secretary to the 

 Royal Geographical Society, Gresham Professor of Astronomy. 



Demy Svo. pp. xvi + 206. With 24 plates. Price 6s. net 



This introduction to the study of maps and the processes of survey by 

 which they are made has been written to supply the need of a book giving 

 a general account of the many-sided art of survey, which his experience as 

 a teacher in the department of geography in the university of Cambridge 

 has shown to exist. The treatment of the topographical and geodetic 

 survey follows closely the methods employed by the Ordnance Survey, 

 the Survey of India, and the School of Military Engineering at Chatham. 

 The general scope of the book may be seen from the following list 

 of chapters : Maps — Map Analysis — Route Traversing — Simple Land 

 Survey — Compass and Plane Table Sketching — Topographical Survey — 

 Geodetic Survey — Survey Instruments. 



" Witliout being a technical treatise on surveying, this book deals with the subject 

 in sufficient detail to put any inap-maker on the track of the methods best suited to his 

 purpose. ..though short and compact it is a book evidently based on a thorough know- 

 ledge of the subject and should interest a wide circle of students of geography." — 



Scotsman 



The Madras Presidency, with Mysore, Coorg, and the associated states. 

 By Edgar Thurston, CLE., sometime Superintendent of the Madras 

 Government Museum. 



Large crown Svo. pp. xii+29+. With 100 maps and illustrations. 



The first volume of the Provincial Geographies of India (see p. 32) deals 

 with the Presidency of Madras in its physical, ethnological, archaeological, 

 historical and industrial aspects. 



In his Preface the General Editor, Sir T. H. Holland, says : "Among 

 the ' provinces ' the Madras Presidency has above all developed an in- 

 dividuality of its own — advanced in education through early missionary 

 effort, free of frontier worries, comparatively homogeneous in ethnic 

 composition, and sufficiently unknown to the Central Government to 

 escape undue interference, its officials and its people are distinctly 

 ' Madrassi,' and are rightly proud to be so. No geographical unit could 

 more appropriately be selected to initiate this series, and everyone who 

 knows the Senior Presidency will recognise the pre-eminent fitness of 

 Mr Edgar Thurston to give a true picture of South India. As Superin- 

 tendent of the Madras Museum, he sampled every form of natural product 

 in the South. As Superintendent of the Ethnographic Survey he obtained 

 an intimate acquaintance with the people." 



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