Colonial surveys in Tanganyika

The volume contains two short papers on surveying compiled from notes kept during Dickson's time in Tanganyika: 'Colonial surveys in Tanganyika', a potted history, and 'A colonial surveyor in Tanganyika', a personal view of the Colonial Survey Service in the 1950s. There is an accompanying folder containing correspondence with Peter Fox, Cambridge University Librarian, regarding the gift of the collection to the R.C.S., and an additional copy of pages 25-30 of the second paper.

William L. Dickson O.B.E. worked in Tanganyika as Colonial Service Surveyor, 1950-1961, and Assistant Commissioner, 1961-1964, then Commissioner for Surveys and Mapping, 1964-1970. He was Director of Surveys and Lands in Botswana, 1971-1985, and Associate Professor, University of Technology, Papua New Guinea, 1985-1991.

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Presented by W.L. Dickson, March 2000.

Includes index.

MSS 469

MSS Addenda, vol. II.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Copies are also held in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, and the Museum of Commonwealth and Empire, Bristol.

This collection level description was created by RAS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Dickson, William L, fl 1950-2000, surveyor