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AFTER about a year spent in preliminary experiment, the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, aided by an initial grant from the Rockefeller Research Foundation administered by the London School of Economics, began work with the appointment of its first organising secretary in October 1930. The genesis of the scheme, its aims and objects, have been explained at some length in papers read before the Royal Geographical Society1 and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.2 It may be said very simply that the aim of the Survey is to make a cartographical record, complete for the whole of Great Britain and referring to the years 1931 and 1932, of the uses to which the surface of the country is being placed at the present time.
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Geographical J., 78, July 1931.
Scottish Geographical Mag., 47, May 1931.
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STAMP, L. The Land Utilisation Survey of Britain. Nature 129, 709–711 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129709a0
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