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032-003440772

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032-003440772

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TRIG

Title:

War Office/Ministry of Defence Trigonometrical/Geodetic Library Material

Scope & Content:

Survey materials and their derivatives used in the compilation and revision of maps to support the geographical requirements of the United Kingdom government and armed forces. The library primarily comprises survey control items including surveyors' field observations, computations, grid and graticule information, maps and associated reports, with a large proportion of the material used in the delineation of international boundaries. Most items are manuscript, with a sizeable number in typescript. Geographical coverage is largely of southern and eastern Africa and the Middle East.

The following original indexes exist within the library:

Anglo-Belgian (Northern Rhodesia-Belgian Congo) Boundary Commission 1927-33. A partially complete 'Index of Observation Books Showing Contents' is filed at TRIG/12. These Observation Books (often annotated as 'field' copies) contained the original survey data and were completed in the field. To protect against loss, it was common practice for surveyors to copy these observations into a duplicate Observation Book (often annotated as 'office' copies) at the end of each day. Both field and office copies are held in this collection.
Palestine Survey Records. A listing of these records is filed at TRIG/49, although not everything on the list was transferred to the British Library.

Categories of material include:

· Nyasa-Tanganyika Boundary 1898

· Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission North and South of the Zambezi 1904-05

· Barotseland Boundaries 1907

· Mweru-Tanganyika Boundary Commission 1911-13

· Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1911-14

· War Office geodetic computations and traverse 1912-14

· Rhodesia-Angola Boundary Commission 1913-14

· RE Field Survey companies, Syria & Palestine 1917-37

· Levant/Syria 1918-63

· Turkey, Greece and the Balkans 1919-67

· Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1922-24

· Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait 1923-39

· Northern Rhodesia documents 1924

· Survey of Palestine 1924-46 [? or under the British Mandate 1918-48]

· Anglo-Belgian (Northern Rhodesia-Belgian Congo) Boundary Commission 1927-33

· Northern Rhodesia-Belgian Congo Boundary 1937

· Iceland 1940-43

· Italy 1940-46

· Middle East: miscellaneous survey records 1940-55

· Palestine-Transjordan triangulation chain 1941-46

· Northern Rhodesia Survey Section astronomical observations 1941

· Israel 1948-

· Director of Colonial Surveys air survey points 1951

· Geographical Mission of Mozambique 1953

· Northern Rhodesia-Southern Rhodesia boundary 1964 (booklet)

· Northern Rhodesia-Angola Boundary Commission 1964

· Transjordan Original Surveys

· Gazetteers

· Zambia boundaries, general

· Books

Collection Area:

Map Collections

Hierarchy Tree:

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Folders 20-30." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003440922", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/5: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. 1927-8-9. Folders A-H." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441194", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/6: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Whole boundary. Folders 31-39." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441207", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/7: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Folders 40 and 42-47." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441371", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/8: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Folders 48-53." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441239", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/9: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed and Meridian sections. Folders 54-58." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441242", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/10: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Folders 59, 59A 60, 61 and 62." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441263", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/11: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Whole boundary. Folders 63-68." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441308", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/12: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Triangulation. Horizontal and Vertical Observation Books (field…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441310", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/13: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Triangulation. Horizontal and Vertical Observation Books (field…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441271", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/14: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Astronomical Observation Books (field copies)." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441321", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/15: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Boundary Traverses. Topo[graphical]. Survey Traverse…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441495", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/16: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Boundary Traverses. Topo[graphical]. Survey Traverse…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441270", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/17: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Boundary and Triangulation Point Traverses. Topo[graphical].…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441272", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/18: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. External Detail Traverses. Topo[graphical]. Survey Traverse…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441510", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/19: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Cross-levelling. Level Observation Books (field copies)." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441513", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/20: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Cross-levelling. Level Observation Books (field copies)." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441268", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/21: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Primary Triangulation. Angles. Topo[graphical]. Survey Traverse…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441546", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/22: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Primary Triangulation. Distances. Traverse Books (field…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441547", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/23: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Primary Triangulation. Distances. Traverse Books (field…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003443025", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/24: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Boundary Traverses. Topo[graphical]. Survey Traverse…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003443026", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/25: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Triangulation and Boundary Traverses. Topo[graphical]. Survey…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003443030", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/26: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Boundary, Triangulation Point and External Detail Traverses.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003443034", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/27: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Cross-levelling. Level Books (office copies)." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003443040", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/28: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Cross-levelling. Level Books (office copies)." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441335", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/29: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Meridian Section. Traverse. Topo[graphical]. Survey Traverse Observation Books." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441294", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/30: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Mweru-Tanganyika and Meridian sections, and link to 30th Arc of Meridian. Survey Observation…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441269", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/31: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed Section. Copies of Reports and Protocols. Created by Lieutenant Colonel…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441304", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/32: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933.'Technical Report on the Surveys carried out by the Northern Rhodesia - Belgian Congo Boundary…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003443294", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/33: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Treaties, Protocols and Exchanges Of Territory Documents." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450342", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/34: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Exchanges Of Territory Documents." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003440940", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/35: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933. Congo-Zambesi Watershed and Meridian sections. Protocols, Agreements and Details of the Boundary…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003441336", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/36: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1911-1914. Whole boundary. Observations and Computations." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450616", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/37: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1911-1914. Mweru-Tanganyika and Bangweulu sections. Abstract and Computation Books." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450634", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/38: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1911-1914. Bangweulu Sections. Computation Books." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450696", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/39: Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commissions 1911-1914 and 1927-1933. Miscellaneous survey papers reproduced for related work." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450656", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/40: Northern Rhodesia. Miscellaneous survey papers." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450827", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/41: Rhodesia-Angola Boundary Commission 1913-1914. Reports & Documents. Angle and Traverse Books." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450848", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/42: Rhodesia-Angola Boundary Commission 1913-1914. Reports & Documents. Astronomical, Triangulation and Other Observations and…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450857", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/43: Northern Rhodesia - Portuguese Kwando Boundary Commission 1960-64. Copies of Documents Relating to the Agreements Between the United Kingdom…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450962", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/44: Northern Rhodesia Boundaries, including the Barotse Kingdom and Southern Rhodesia" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450972", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/45: Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission North and South of the Zambesi 1904-1906" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003450985", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/46: Anglo-German Boundary Commission Nyasa-Tanganyika Boundary 1898" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451016", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/47: Geodetic Survey of South Africa. Under the Direction of Sir David Gill." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451047", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/48: Africa: Miscellaneous Survey Documents" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451132", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/49: Damascus - Aleppo Triangulation. Survey observations, diagrams, report and correspondence. Created by the 7 Field Survey Company, Royal…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451168", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/50: Palestine and Syria Survey Records" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451213", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/51: Palestine and Syria Survey Records" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451236", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/52: Palestine Triangulation: Angle Books" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451248", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/53: Palestine Survey Records" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451263", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/54: Palestine Survey Records: Triangulation in Beersheba Area 1946" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451360", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/55: Palestine Survey Records: Subeita and Asluj Artillery Ranges" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451369", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/56: Palestine Survey Records: Subeita and Asluj Artillery Ranges" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451417", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/57: Palestine Survey Records" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451604", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/58: Palestine Survey Records: Survey of Palestine Station Descriptions" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451605", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/59: Palestine Survey Records: Survey of Palestine Station Descriptions" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451649", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/60: Palestine and Israel: Various Books and Papers" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451654", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/61: Palestine-Transjordan Triangulation Chain" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451660", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/62: Palestine-Transjordan Triangulation Chain and Palestine-Egypt Triangulation Chain" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451661", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/63: Egypt-Transjordan Tri[an]g[ulation] Connection. Survey Books. Created by the South African Survey Company." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451662", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/64: Palestine-Transjordan Triangulation Chain" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451664", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/65: Mediterranean Triangulation Chain" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451671", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/66: 'L[ieutenan]t. Col[onel]. Keeling's Journey Damascus to Abu Kemal, August 1919; and Various Items relating to Levant Zone Geodesy." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451679", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/67: Palmyre, Syria. Survey Observation Books and Associated Documentation." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451683", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/68: Egypt, Palestine and Transjordan Triangulation: Duplicate Records" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451687", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/69: Egypt, Palestine and Transjordan Triangulation: Observations, Computations and Trig Lists" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451692", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/70: Egypt, Palestine and Transjordan Triangulation: Observations, Computations and Trig Lists. South Levant Primary Triangulation: Station…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451694", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/71: Transjordan, Palestine and Syria Triangulation; and Iceland Triangulation" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451733", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/72: Egypt, Palestine and Transjordan Triangulation: Observations, Abstracts and Computations" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451771", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/73: Turkey, Albania, Yugoslavia and Greece: Various Materials" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451787", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/74: Syria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia: Various Materials" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451837", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/75: Turko-Iraq Boundary Survey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451839", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/76: Italy-Yugoslavia Boundary. Trigonometrical Reports." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003451840", "parent" : "032-003440772", "text" : "TRIG/77: Iraq. Various Surveys." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

77 boxes comprising survey observation books, maps, foolscap folios and technical reports

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1880

End Date:

1999

Date Range:

1880-2nd half of 20th century

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Custodial History:

The library was continuously in the custody of the War Office, later the Ministry of Defence

Source of Acquisition:

The library was transferred from the MoD Defence Geographic Centre at Feltham, Middlesex

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected

Appraisal:

The Trigonometrical/Geodetic Library was formed from the merger of separate Trigonometrical and Geodetic libraries prior to its deposit at the British Library

Arrangement:

The library was transferred in approximately 80 boxes. Items within each box bore a Trig/Geodetic Library class mark, although the boxes themselves lacked formal numbering. Now re-boxed and renumbered sequentially, the content of each box where possible remains the same, with the Trig/Geodetic Library class mark retained on individual items.

Boxes 1 to 48 (catalogued as TRIG/1 to TRIG/48) have undergone sorting at the British Library and the contents re-arranged such that whole surveys now appear in consecutive boxes. Boxes 49 (TRIG/49) onwards have not required such sorting.

Material Type:

Maps and Plans

Legal Status:

Public Record(s)

Names:

Defence Geographic Centre, 2000-