The Government of India travelling exhibition on the bicentenary of William
Lambton and the start of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India has
opened in Cambridge, at the first of five locations in the UK this year. It
provides a unique opportunity to see historic instruments and archives from
the Survey of India Museum collections in Dehra Dun (including Ramsden's
Great Theodolite, last seen in Britain at the Science Museum Festival of
India exhibition in 1981). Visit www.thegreatarc.net for more information,
including the text of the £5 book accompanying the exhibition. The
exhibition runs 15-23 July in a marquee on Jesus Green, Cambridge
(connecting with the quadrennial international Cambridge Conference of
surveyors), 5-24 August in Edinburgh, 4-20 September in Birmingham, 1
October-12 November in London, and 26 November-15 January 2004 in
Manchester. Though the mounting of the exhibition was devolved to Teamwork
Productions India, the Survey of India apparently intend to have an official
present at the exhibition sites, currently Charanjit Mamik, senior librarian
from Survey of India Geodetic and Research Branch, Dehra Dun, in Cambridge.
The exhibit is the centrepiece of the Festival of the Great Arc, with
performances of Indian dance and music in Britain, and also serves very well
as a didactic exhibition of the history of geodetic survey and mapping in
India over 200 years. Please go to see it if it's near you and you're minded
to.
Andrew Cook
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