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RefNoMC/27/166
AltRefNo12166
LevelItem
TitleLetter from the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to the Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, W
CreatorOrdnance Survey Office
Date13 November 1912
DescriptionRequests permission to examine original records of the levelling work carried out by Mr Lloyd from Sheerness to London Bridge, and described in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1831, for the purpose of comparing the results with those obtained in later years by the levellers of his department, and obtaining an idea of accuracy with which Mr Lloyd worked.
Extent1p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
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