. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. I 222 REPORT—1884. The mode of issue varies greatly, and therefore the exact titles of the publications arc p;ivcn, as far as possible. For information upon Topographical Surveys reference may bo made to the ' Notes on the Government Surveys of the Principal Countries of the World,' ])repared at the Intelligence Branch of the War Officf, London, and published in 1883 (pr
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. I 222 REPORT—1884. The mode of issue varies greatly, and therefore the exact titles of the publications arc p;ivcn, as far as possible. For information upon Topographical Surveys reference may bo made to the ' Notes on the Government Surveys of the Principal Countries of the World,' ])repared at the Intelligence Branch of the War Officf, London, and published in 1883 (price Os.). This gives the scales of all the chief maps ; plates, with descriptions, of tho various signs employed ; full tables of all raciisures of length and surface, with their English equi- valents. Brief mention is sometimes made of the Geological Surveys. In the following pages the natural scale of maps is given, this being the method almost universally adopted on the Continent. Tho following table gives the equivalents, in English inches, of the scales referred to :— Inohos to Xaturnl Scale. one Mile. Countries. 10,000 . «•:{:$(; . Upper Sik'sia, Italy (part). JO,r)(!0 . fiOOO . United Kingdom (part). 20,000 . ;M68 . Belgium. 2r),ooo . 2-r>u . rrussia, Saxony, Alsace-Lorraine, Italj (part) 50,000 . l-2fi7 . Swetlcn (part), Italy (part). 6;{,;{fio . 1-000 . United Kingdom (j)art). 75,000 . -845 . Austria and Hungary. 80,000 . •7i)2 . Franco. 100,000 . -tliJa . Italy, Norway, Switzerland, IJavaria. 144,000 . -440 . Austria and Ilungary. 200,000 . -317 . Netherlands, Finland, Sweden (part). 400,000 . -hVJ . Spain. 420,000 . -150 . Russia. The meridian adopted for the maps varies much.' As a rule it is that of the capital of the country. The exceptions to this are the maps of Germany and some of Norway, where the meridian is Ferro, and Switzer- land, where it is Paris. Paris has been taken as the meridian for the map of Europe, now being prepared by a committee
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