| Description | Letter regarding the loan of the 2.5 metre standard and accompanying apparatus from the Russian Government, for the purposes of measuring the Zambesi Tanganyika arc of the 30th meridian. Is sorry to inform the British South Africa Company that a letter from the Chief of the Topographic Section of the Etat-Major, St Petersburg, has arrived in Russia badly damaged. Messrs Troughton and Simms, who packed the instruments, have said that the cases were sent to the British South Africa Company for despatch. Asks the date of the cases' despatch to Russia, the agency they were sent by, and if the Company received acknowledgement of their arrival in St Petersburg. Asks for assurance that the cases were not opened in transit. |