. Review of reviews and world's work . MAPPING THE WORLD ON A STANDARD SCALE 32:. Photograph by , Washington ACHESON F. HASSAN GEORGE OTIS SMITH ROBERT BRADFORD MARSHALL (Cartographer) (Director) (Chief Geographer) OFFICIALS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ACTIVE IN COMPILING THE AMERICAN STANDARD MAP abandon Paris as a pri-mary meridian to acceptthat of their British neigh-bors. And the same subor-dination of national prideto scientific progress andinternational comity ledthe French Republic buta few months ago to adoptinternational standardtime with the meridian ofGreenwich as a startingp
. Review of reviews and world's work . MAPPING THE WORLD ON A STANDARD SCALE 32:. Photograph by , Washington ACHESON F. HASSAN GEORGE OTIS SMITH ROBERT BRADFORD MARSHALL (Cartographer) (Director) (Chief Geographer) OFFICIALS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ACTIVE IN COMPILING THE AMERICAN STANDARD MAP abandon Paris as a pri-mary meridian to acceptthat of their British neigh-bors. And the same subor-dination of national prideto scientific progress andinternational comity ledthe French Republic buta few months ago to adoptinternational standardtime with the meridian ofGreenwich as a startingpoint. It would seem mostappropriate, therefore,that a corresponding liber-ality should be manifestedby the Anglo-Saxon na-tions in adopting the inter-national metric system ofweights and measureswhich had its origin anddevelopment in France. The map sheets de-scribed will not number2640, as about three-fourths* of the earths sur-face is ocean, the mappingof which is unnecessary forthe present purpose, so thatto include even the Oceanicislands it will not be nec-essary to const
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