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tral Provinces ; in North Canara, and in the Poona and Thanna districts 

 of the Bombay Presidency ; in Coimbatore, Tinnevelly and Madura 

 districts, Madras Presidency ; in the Prome and Toungoo districts in 

 Lower Burma ; while new surveys were instituted in Jalpaiguri and in 

 the Lansdowne Cantonment. 



These operations have been continued in Chittagong, Tipperah and 



Jalpaiguri, in Bengal ; in Garhwal and the 



Cadastral Surveys. Rampur State in the K _ w> ProvincC8 . m 



Kamrup, Nowgong, Darrang and Sylhet, Assam; in Mandalay, Meiktila, 

 Thongwa and Amherst, Burma ; and in Pooree and Cuttack, Orissa. 

 Traverse Surveys were carried on by two parties, one in Mandla, Central 

 Provinces, and the other in three districts of Lower Burma. 



The work of the publishing offices of the Survey has progressed 

 steadily, though there are no new publications 

 Publishing Offices. of special importance to note. A third edition 

 of the 32-mile map of India, with considerable extensions in Baluchistan 

 and Burma, is well advanced. Constant additions are being made to the 

 maps of the new country in Upper Burnia and our S.-E. Frontier. The 

 heliogravure process continues to make good progress in the photogra- 

 phic office, and it is proposed to bring out the sheets of the new survey 

 of the City of Calcutta by its aid on a reduced scale. During the 

 year a process of photo-block printing in half tones was introduced, 

 and seems likely to have many useful applications. 



There is nothing very special to record regarding Asiatic Geography 

 during 1891 except Lord Lamington's journey 



Trans-Frontier and from Siam to Tonquin, but nevertheless the 

 other Geographical l , ,„ , 



Explorations. year has not been an unfruitful one, and lias 



been specially marked by the publication of 

 some of the important results obtained during the explorations in Central 

 Asia that had been in progress in the previous few years. The need 

 for a more exact knowledge of our border lands on our own part is 

 yearly becoming accentuated by the steady advance of our European 

 neighbours on the N.-W. and S.-E., and though there is reason to believe 

 that the subject is receiving due attention, it is to bo regretted that 

 some of the results which might be of scientific interest are not per- 

 mitted to appear. 



Siam. — The Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society contain 

 a very interesting account by Lord Lamington of his journey through 

 the Trans-Salween Shan States to Tonquin. Starting from Bangkok 

 he proceeded to Chieng Mai, where lie joined Mr. Archer, the British 

 Consul, who was then starting on an expedition to settle the frontier 

 between the Shan States and Siam, ami accompanied him as far as 



