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The volume, marked confidential, is Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935, prepared by Donald Banks of the Air Ministry, by command of the Air Council.

The volume begins with a brief forward (folio 2) in which the geographical scope is outlined. The volume is then divided into nine chapters (I-IX) with appendices, as follows:

I - History

II - System of Government

III - Population

IV - Political Geography

V - Physical Geography

VI - Climate and Meteorology

VII - Communications

VIII - Resources

IX - Armed Forces

Appendices - Weights and Measures, Coinage, Calendar and Time, Note on the state of Wahhabism viewed from a military standpoint, Note on Zakat

The volume contains the following route reports:

1. 'Uqair to Riyadh, via al Hasa

2. Riyadh to Wadi Fatima (near Jedda)

3. Jumaima to Medina

4. Riyadh to Kuwait

5. Kuwait to Transjordan Frontier

The volume contains nineteen maps and plans, as follows:

• Imperial Air and Sea Routes (folio 29)
• Tribal Areas (folio 23)
• Administrative Divisions (folio 33)
• Town Plans of Jedda, Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, and Taif (folios 40, 42, 43, 45, and 46, respectively)
• Diagrammatic Section of Middle Sa'udi Arabia (folio 50)
• Physical Geography (folio 54)
• Chart showing Magnetic Variation in Arabia (folio 59)
• Communications in Sa'udi Arabia (folio 64)
• Diagram of Principal Watering Points, Frontier Posts and Garrisons (folio 70)
• Tribes of Asir (folio 76)
• Panorama of the town of Marat (folio 98)
• Panorama of Muwaih (folio 101)
• Sketch Plan of Muwaih (folio 100)
• Sketch of route Rumaihiya-Jarya (Route Report No. 4) (folio 109)
• General Map (folio 121)