Abstract
THIS work is not intended for the ordinary traveller who wishes to prepare a sketch-map of the country which he traverses, and to determine with moderate accuracy the position of his halting places. M. Crépin de Beauregard, who has had much experience of surveying both in France and in Indo-China, has prepared a handbook for the trained surveyor who has a certain knowledge of mathematics and has to undertake work of considerable accuracy in new countries in order to provide a control for subsequent topographical surveys. The treatment is consequently in a large degree theoretical, though actual examples from work in the field are given, but the simpler and less precise methods of topographical surveying are not included.
Guide Scientifique du Géographe-Explorateur.
By P. Crépin de Beauregard. Pp. x + 250 + 2 plates. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1912.) Price 10 francs.
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L., H. Guide Scientifique du Géographe-Explorateur . Nature 91, 56 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091056a0
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