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R.E. & Engineers; and subsequently wrote a private letter to my friend, Colonel Booth, the present Director of the Ordnance Survey, asking him to
do his best in the matter, should be hereafter made to him. He has, however, expressed to me in a reply his regret that, owing to a recent decision to double the strength of the Survey force and hasten the completion of the work, it would be impossible,
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of the higher duties must now be retained, and Colonel Booth has been obliged of late to refuse several similar applications from Cyprus, Mr Astronomer Royal, the Palestine Exploration Fund, and in Cape of Good Hope.
But, although the Royal Engineers are thus closed to us, I am still sanguine that good men for the posts of both Dr P and Second Assistant can be found amongst the other Corps, and that the Inspector General of Fortifications, to whom also I have written on the subject, will not be unwilling to spare such men to the Colony. Both of them should in every...
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