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retransliterative, and it seems that a 

 tacit consent to certain exemptions in 

 chart work would be permissible pend- 

 ing action in Russia. 



Viewing the matter from all angles, 

 the subcommittee finally recommends 

 the adoption of Table III. It is recog- 

 nized that the use of diacritics is ob- 



jectionable and wisely discountenanced 

 by the Geographic Board ; but no com- 

 plete solution has been found without 

 using them to distinguish five of the 

 Russian characters, one of which is 

 obsolete, and the necessity seems to 

 exist of making an exception in this 

 single and singular problem. 



Table I. — Transliteration of Russian alphabet characters. 



