The Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture

1 capable of turning out six hundred maps per hour, are continually a t work.Each year there are printed and distributed 1,200,-000 maps, about as many as the Coast and Geodetic Survey has published since it came into existence.A t Southampton, where t h e office of the English Ordnance Survey is located, the personnel consists of about nine hundred persons, of which probably one hundred belong to the army.The map prjnting establibh men t has even greater capacity than that a t Paris, 3,000,000 maps bring delivered annually.Although the great trigonometric work may be considered as finished in England, nevertheless, the topographic work goes on, and the effort is made to cover the whole kingdom once in twenty years with a new map on a scale of 1/2.500, and once in fifteen yearn with one on 1110,-000.Of course, the latter is made from the former by making blue prints, t r a c i ~~g in black the detail required, and photographing again, which leaves out everything in blue on the original sheet.