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Excerpt from Natural Science, Vol. 12: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, January-June 1898 There is in Japan no separate body like our ordnance-survey, but the Geological Survey has to make its own topographical maps. All the work to which we have here alluded is carried on by a staff of six geologists, four topographers, and eight cartographers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.