Professional papers

Copies of Ordnance Survey Professional Papers can be borrowed from our library through local reference libraries via the British Library (using the BLDSC form).

Professional Paper No: 1 (Book)
Title: Account of the measurement of a geodetic base line at Lossiemouth in 1909, with a discussion of the theory of
Author: Johnston W J / Henrici E O
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1912

Professional Paper No: 2 (Book)
Title: Investigation into the accuracy of the principal triangulation of the United Kingdom
Author: Winterbotham H St J L
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1913

Professional Paper No: 3 (Book)
Title: Notes on the geodesy of the British Isles
Author: Close C F
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1914

Professional Paper No: 4 (Book)
Title: Report on the re-levelling in 1915-1917 of a line from the English Channel to the Bristol Channel
Author: Close C F
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1917

Professional Paper No: 5 (Book) Title: Note on two double or two point map projections
Author: Close C F
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1922

Professional Paper No: 6 (Book)
Title: Notes on archaeological information incorporated in the Ordnance Survey maps, Part 1 / Long barrows and stone
Author: Crawford O G S
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1922

Professional Paper No: 7 (Book)
Title: Air survey and archaeology, 2nd ed
Author: Crawford O G S
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1928

Professional Paper No: 8 (Book)
Title: Notes on archaeological information incorporated in the Ordnance Survey maps, Part 2 / Long barrows and megaliths
Author: Crawford O G S
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1924

Professional Paper No: 9 (Book)
Title: Measurement of the Semliki base: with some notes on Invar wires
Author: Jack E M
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1924

Professional Paper No: 10 (Book)
Title: Papers read at the British Association meeting of 1925 on the work of the Ordnance Survey
Author: Ordnance Survey/Jack E M/and others
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1926

Professional Paper No: 11 (Book)
Title: Transverse elliptical equal area projection of the sphere, otherwise transverse mollweide
Author: Close C F
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1927

Professional Paper No: 12 (Book)
Title: Air photography for archaeologists
Author: Crawford O G S
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1929

Professional Paper No: 13 (Book)
Title: Field archaeology: some notes for beginners 4th ed (1st ed, 1932)
Author: Ordnance Survey
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1963

Professional Paper No: 14 (Book)
Title: Subsidence of London: paper read at the British Association meeting of 1932
Author: Longfield T E
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1932

Professional Paper No: 15 (Book)
Title: Further notes on the geodesy of the British Isles including geodetic surveys of the crown colonies
Author: Ordnance Survey
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1933

Professional Paper No: 16 (Book)
Title: National plans (the ten-foot, five-foot, twenty-five inch and six-inch scales)
Author: Winterbotham H St J L
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1934

Professional Paper No: 16 (Book)
Title: Replotted counties (twenty five inch based on six inch survey)
Author: Winterbotham H St J L
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1934

Professional Paper No: 17 (Book)
Title: Strip map of Littlington
Author: Crawford O G S
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1937

Professional Paper No: 18 (Book)
Title: Measurement of the Ridge Way and Caithness bases 1951-52
Author: Cobb M H
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1953

Professional Paper No: 19 (Book)
Title: Geodimeter measurement of the Ridge Way and Caithness bases 1953
Author: Mackenzie I C C
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1954

Professional Paper No: 20 (Book)
Title: Stereocomparator technique for aerial triangulation
Author: Arthur D W G
Publisher: HMSO Published in: 1955

Professional Paper No: 21 (Book)
Title: Geodetic measurements across the English Channel 1963
Author: Ordnance Survey
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1971

Professional Paper No: 22 (Book)
Title: EDM connection to the Republic of Ireland 1969
Author: Wakelin P J
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1971

Professional Paper No: 23
Title: Development of digital maps
Author: Gardiner-Hill R C
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1972

Professional Paper No: 24 (Book)
Title: Readjustment of the retriangulation of Great Britain and its relationship to the European terrestrial and ...
Author: Ashkenazi V/and others
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1972

Professional Paper No: 25 (Book)
Title: Overhaul of the 1:2500 county series maps
Author: Ordnance Survey
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1972

Professional Paper No: 26 (Book)
Title: National gravity reference net 1973
Author: Masson Smith D/and others
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1974

Professional Paper No: 27 (Book)
Title: Precise alignment survey of a 5km radio telescope aerial array for the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge University
Author: Peiss W J/Proctor D W/Haywood P E
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1974

Professional Paper No: 28 (Book)
Title: Map market in Great Britain
Author: Drewitt B D
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1975

Professional Paper No: 29 (Book)
Title: Astrogeodetic determination of the geoid in Great Britain
Author: Dean J D A
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1980

Professional Paper No: 30 (Book)
Title: Report of an investigation into the use of Doppler Satellite Positioning to provide coordinates on the Europe
Author: Ordnance Survey
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1981

Professional Paper No: 31 (Book)
Title: 1980 readjustment of the triangulation of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland OS(SN)80
Author: Ashkenazi V/and others
Publisher: Ordnance Survey Published in: 1986