Observation books and report produced as part of the boundary demarcation between lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika, delimiting the territories of Rhodesia, British Central Africa and German East Africa. Comprises the following: 5 bound volumes of observations entitled 'Nyasa-Tanganyika Boundary. 1898...
'Geodetic Survey of South Africa. Under the Direction of Sir David Gill.'
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Comprises the following: Volume III. 'Report on the Geodetic Survey of Part of Southern Rhodesia. Executed by Mr. Alexander Simms.' 1 volume of 146 pages. Includes pull-out folio 'Triangulation Plan Geodetic Survey Rhodesia', scale 1:1,000,000 and 6 pages of additional typed coordinates (2 of w...
Comprises the following: Notebook of astronomical and sun observations dated 1898-1899 and taken on Major A. St Hill Gibbons' expedition to Barotseland. Manuscript: coloured ink and pencil on ruled paper; 16 x 10cm. 'Astronomical Observation Angle Book'. Observations dated 1902-1903 and taken ...
Comprises the following folders, with material mostly compiled by 7 Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers and Survey of Egypt. Some survey observation books have headers in Arabic: 1 survey observation book (30 x 26cm) with 44 pages of inserted observations and notes. Dated 1919-1921. (No. 070?...
Comprises the following, compiled by 7 Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers: 36 Angle Books (19 x 21cm). Various numbering systems. Book 'Beersheba - Jerusalem Angle Book 1' bears the note 'Recopied from books spoilt by rain'. Some books have loose pages of observations inserted. Dated 1917-19...
Comprises the following, compiled by 7 Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers and Survey of Egypt: 2 survey observation books of angular measurements (30 x 26cm). Most pages are loose. Page headers are in Arabic. Dated 1917. (No. 07042; Cn 301 E(3)) 82 folios of survey observations relating to ...
Palestine Survey Records: Triangulation in Beersheba Area 1946
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Comprises the following, compiled by various Royal Engineers Field Survey companies and Survey of Palestine: 2 exercise books (21 x 16cm) titled 'Intersections Original' containing computations for station intersections and resections. Dated 1946. Also 1 original envelope. (Folio-K3-345; Box-FR...
Palestine Survey Records: Subeita and Asluj Artillery Ranges
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Comprises the following, compiled by the Royal Engineers. Used in the compilation of series MDR 690, 'R[oyal]. A[rtillery]. Range Maps - Asluj & Subeita', 4 sheets, scale 1:25,000, surveyed, drawn and reproduced by 512 Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, March 1947, filed at Maps MOD MDR ...