Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-1933.'Technical Report on the Surveys carried...

The items listed below were transferred in 15 separate envelopes which have now been exchanged for archival envelopes. However, the original envelopes have been retained as some contain information additional to that which appears below:. One original typescript and three copies (2 ? photostats and 1 ? photostat black-print) of the main body of the Technical Report. Two of the copies are identical; the other has minor variations. Total 19 pages. The envelope bears the note 'For triangulation diagrams see DS 320 F(2) (5 sheets).' [Not held.]. Appendix A: Two copies (1 ? photostat and 1 ? photostat black-print) of sections of Lieutenant Colonel A.B. Clough's Report. Total 46 pages and 1 folio. Appendix B: Two copies (1 ? photostat and 1 ? photostat black-print) of a Technical Report by Lt. Col. E.R.L. Peake on part of the [Congo-Zambesi] Watershed Section of the boundary (including Angola tripoint); includes only Appendices I (Triangulation Data) and XIII (Diary of Work). Total 44 pages. Appendix C: Two copies (1 ? photostat and 1 ? photostat black-print) of a Technical Report by Lt. Col. E.R.L. Peake on the part of the [Congo-Zambesi] Watershed Section and the whole of the [Mpanta] Meridian Section of the boundary; includes only Appendices XVI and XIII (Diaries of Work). Total 36 pages. Appendix D: Two copies (1 ? photostat and 1 ? photostat black-print) of a Technical Report by Lt. Col. E.R.L. Peake on the Mweru-Tanganyika Section of the boundary less Appendices. Total 16 pages. Appendix E: Three copies (1 ? Photostat, 1 ? photostat black-print and 1 ? mimeograph) of the Final (1935) Values for the Major Triangulation carried out along the [Congo-Zambesi] Watershed and [Mpanta] Meridian sections of the boundary. Both copies contain manuscript additions, although not necessarily the same. The mimeograph copy lacks a front cover. Total 44 pages. Appendix F: Two copies (1 ? photostat and 1 ? photostat black-print) and one additional copy of a single page (? mimeograph). Values for the Belgian Triangulations of 1912 and 1930. Also 'Triangulation Data Important Note'. [Congo-Zambesi] Watershed Section. Typescript original with manuscript additions. Total 13 pages (1 recto and verso). Appendix G: Two copies (1 ? photostat and 1 ? photostat black-print) of Final (1935) values for the Minor Triangulation carried out along the [Congo-Zambesi] Watershed Section of the boundary. Total 20 pages. Appendix H: Two copies (1 ? photostat and 1 ? photostat black-print) of the Final (1935) values for the Minor Triangulation carried out along the [Mpanta] Meridian Section of the boundary. Total 6 pages. Appendix I: Three copies (1 ? photostat and 2 ? photostat black-prints) for the Major and Minor Triangulations carried out between Lakes Mweru and Tanganyika. Also one original typescript copy back page, Total 18 pages. Appendix J. Two copies (1 ? photostat and 1 ? mimeograph, different and incomplete) of Latitude, Longitude & Height of Principal Boundary Pillars for the Minor Triangulation carried out along the [Mpanta] Meridian Section of the boundary. Total 12 pages. Appendix K. One copy (? photostat) Cassini Co-ordinates of Auxiliary Boundary Pillars; Included angles at all B.Ps; Distances between adjacent B.Ps. [Congo-Zambesi] Watershed Section. Total 94 pages. Appendix L. One copy (? photostat) Cassini Co-ordinates of Auxiliary Boundary Pillars; Included angles at all B.Ps; Distances between adjacent B.Ps. [Mpanta] Meridian Section. Total 11 pages. Appendix M. One copy (? photostat) Adjusted heights of all Boundary Points. [Congo-Zambesi] Watershed and [Mpanta] Meridian Sections. Total 35 pages. Appendices J to M: Two lithographed non-identical copies entitled 'Technical Appendices Northern Rhodesia. Belgian Congo Boundary Commission 1927-33. These volumes also include details of boundary pillar construction. One copy has a single folio insert (photostat black-print) of a copy of page 15; the other volume is incomplete. Total 2 volumes and 1 folio. Used in the compilation of Geographical Section, General Staff No. 4044, 7 sheets at scale 1:250,000 dated 1941 filed at Maps X.6262, and G.S.G.S. 3998, 1 sheet at scale 1:250,000 dated 1933? of which an enlarged bromide at scale 1:200,000 dated 1938 is filed at Maps MOD GSGS 3998.

The legal basis of the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission 1927-33 can be found at:. Brownlie, Ian, African Boundaries (London: Hurst, 1979), pp.708-12. ; An overview and analysis of the Commission's work can be found at:. Donaldson, John, Wade, Marking Territory: Demarcation of the DRC-Zambia Boundary from 1894 to the Present Day. Doctoral thesis, Durham University - http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/328/ [accessed 28/01/2019]. ; An account of the boundary survey can be found at:. E.R.L. Peake, 'Northern Rhodesia: Belgian Congo Boundary', The Geographical Journal, 83 (1934), 263-77 and map after p.352

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