Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Record of the London Topographical Society 1900: Including the Reports of the First Three Annual Meetings of the Society
Notwithstanding their determination to complete the reproduction of the extensive plans made for the old Kensington Turnpike Trust, the Council resolved to issue the annual reports which are here presented, with some additional matter, in a volume approximating to the_ projected official organ of the Society. The present is the first of a series of such yearbooks, which it is hoped will continually approach more nearly the plan of this publication as drawn up by the Council. Instead of the present imperfect record of demolitions and changes during the year 1900, we may hope to see a much more adequate account rendered by the special Committee appointed for this purpose, together with numerous illustrations on a different scale and method, in pur suance of an arrangement now under negotiation. Another feature will be the Commentary on the maps, views, and plans reproduced by the Society, for which Lord Welby, Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, F and others have promised contributions. The editing of unprinted mss. And data relating to London is another feature which we may hope that our Society may win enough support to bring within reach Of accomplishment in these pages.
Hitherto the resources of the Society have been expended in making important additions to their reproductions of views, maps, and plans, with the result that we have now at our back the valuable list of these issues which will be found in this volume. From the beginning this work was the primary object of the Society, and there can be no doubt as to the wisdom of having consistently given it first consideration. The realization in its full proportions of the long-contemplated Annual Record of the Society must depend on increased support, but the number of libraries and institutions both here and in America who have joined the Society and subscribed for complete sets of the publications, the slow but steady increase in our membership, and other signs of encouragement justify the anticipation that this, the first volume, will be followed by more worthy successors.
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