Survey of India. General Report 1935 From 1st October 1934 to 30th September 1935

Detailed accounts are given of the Base-line measurements of the reduction of the Geodetic Triangulation treated in five portions of the early Pendulum observations of Telegraphic Longitude and Astronomical Latitude operations of Tidal observations and of Levelling of high precision. [...] Geodesy means the investigation of the size shape and structure of the earth and the geodetic work of the department consists of primary (or geodetic) triangulation latitude longitude and gravity determinations. [...] Administration is in the hands of the 'Surveyor General under the Education Health and Lands Department of the Government of India. [...] The results for the area west of the railway line from Calcutta to Darjeeling were supplied to the Railway at the end of February and for the area to the east of that line about the middle of June. [...] Lectures.— The students of the Senior Division of the Staff College attended a lecture and demonstration in the office of ‘E' Company at Quetta on the 29th October.