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In conclusion, I should like to place on record here, without making invidious distinctions, that the names in the past standing out prominently in connection with the advancement and control of the Dominion's geodesical minor triangulations, and accurate system of survey* generally, from their initiation up to the present day are —John Turnbull Thomson, F.R.G.S., Alexander Garvey, James McKerrow, F.R.A.S., Captain Theophilus Heale, Henry Jackson, F.R.G.S., Stephenson Percy Smith, F.R.G.S., John William Allman Marchant, Thomas Humphries, Charles William Adams, John Strauchon, Gerhard Mueller, John Holland Baker, John Samuel Browning, John Hay, Eric Charles Gold Smith, George John Roberts, William Arthur, and many others; whilst among the many who have been employed from first to last the following might be mentioned as probably the principal observers : Messrs. Alexander Dundas, James Mitchell, John Aitken Connell, Anthony Dixon Wilson, Henry James Lowe, Morgan Carkeek, John Annabell, James Arthur Thorpe, Thomas Noel Brodrick, Harry May Skeet, Llewellyn Smith, Horace Baker, Lawrence Cussen, John Langmuir, Thomas Maben, James Daniel Climie, James Baber, jun., Hubert Earle Girdlestone. Many of these are not now with us, and not a few have joined the "great majority," but it is only fitting that in the brief outline of New Zealand surveys the men who had so much to do with the building of the structure should not be forgotten.