Catalogue description 'Ten Outline Sketches of the Island of Hong Kong. To accompany the Ordnance map of Hong...

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Details of WO 78/115
Reference: WO 78/115
Description:

'Ten Outline Sketches of the Island of Hong Kong. To accompany the Ordnance map of Hong Kong': 12 sheets, comprising a cover sheet, ten views, and an index map showing the extent of each view. Compass indicator to the index map. [By] Lieutenant [Thomas B] Collinson, Royal Engineers; lithographed by Dickinson and Co, Bond Street; [?issued by] the Royal Engineers' Office, Hong Kong, 27 August 1846. An MS note on the cover sheet, dated 12 March 1847 states that the drawings should be deposited at the Royal Engineers' Office in Mauritius. Cover sheet stamped at the Royal Engineers' Office, Mauritius, 14 June 1875. For a copy of the Ordnance Survey map of Hong Kong, see WO 78/118.
Date: 1846-1875
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical condition: Lithographed
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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