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Argyll, Ayr, Berwick, Bute, Clackmannan, Dumbarton, 

 Dumfries, Lanark, Linlithgow, Orkney, Peebles, Perth, 

 Renfrew, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Shetland, and Stirling, and is 

 in progress in Aberdeen, Forfar, and Inverness. The publi- 

 cation of the revised one inch maps of Scotland, with the 

 hills printed in brown, has been completed, except in the 

 Western Lslands. The engraving of the map on the scale of 

 four miles to an inch is in progress, and 29,038 square miles 

 had been engraved up to March last, and publication will 

 commence shortly. 



With regard to the re-survey of Ireland, the Director- 

 General states in the report that 10,475 square miles on the 

 2TTRF sca -l e have been surveyed, of which 7,364 square miles 

 have been published. The work has been delayed by the 

 extreme closeness of the detail, but arrangements have now 

 been made for a considerable augmentation of the staff, and 

 the transfer of two divisions from Great Britain to Ireland. 



The net value of the Ordnance Survey maps sold in 1900- 

 190 1 was ^23,584, while the value of maps presented to public 

 departments, etc., amounted to £ 19,072. 



Tenth Report of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland. 

 [Cd. 681.] Price, is. 2\d. 



In connection with their work for the improvement of 

 agriculture in the congested districts of Ireland, the Board 

 maintained, as usual, a large number of experimental and 

 demonstration plots in various districts. In 1 900-1 901 these, 

 included 100 plots for testing the suitability of different 

 artificial manures as top dressings for grass land ; 106 plots 

 to demonstrate the advantage to be derived from laying 

 down land with good grass and clover seeds ; seventy-five 

 plots for testing the relative merits of different varieties of 

 potatoes ; three plots for testing mixtures for the prevention 

 of smut in oats ; and seven plots to encourage the culture of 

 strawberries. In addition, small quantities of vegetable 



