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every soldier proceeding to the war was provided with a map, 
and the total number of maps printed for that Department 
during the year was 374,538, the largest number printed for 
the War Office in any previous year having been 64,850. 
The Ordnance Survey was also asked to undertake at very 
short notice some heavy work for the London Govern- 
ment. Act Commission. These causes have combined to 
reduce to some extent the out-turn of the regular work, and 
their effect will be even more felt next year. The total 
number of maps printed far exceeded that in any previous 
year. . 
Among other work may be noticed the special surveys 
made for the Congested District Board in Ireland, which have 
been unusually heavy ; while the preparation of special and : 
the supply of ordinary maps for the Land Registry have 
increased very rapidly. A number of surveys have been 
carried out for the Board of Agriculture in different parts of 
the country in connection with the redemption of tithe rent- 
charge; and it may be mentioned that the number of maps 
printed for the Board was 6,950. 
As regards maps of England and Wales, those on the scale 
of 25 inches to the mile (,,,,) have now been revised for 
twenty-two counties, this work having been completed durin g 
the year for the counties of Anglesey, Berks, Carnarvon, 
Cumberland, Denbigh, Glamorgan, Northampton, Notts, and 
Oxford, while others are in course of revision. The six-inch 
maps are, asa rule, being reduced from the revised edition of 
the larger scale maps above referred to. The one-inch map 
has been undergoing revision since 1893, and this work was 
completed last year, so that the whole of this map is now 
published in a uniform style and revised up to a recent date. 

Government Laboratory.—Report of the Principal Chemest for 
the year ended 31st March, 1900. [Cd. 348.| Price 2$d. 
Dr. T. E. Thorpe, Principal Chemist of the Government 
Laboratory, in reporting on the work performed in his 
