A LAND UTILISATION SURVEY
'To the Editor,of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—In case any of your readers should have been misled by the paragraph which appeared in your issue of Julys 17th, will you alloW me to state that the Land Utilisation Suiyey of Britain, to which reference -was there Made, is an entirely independent organisation under the auspices of the University of London (through the London School of Economics) and supported by private donations, grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Pilgrim Trust and by the sales of its -publications ? Its immediate aim is to record the existing use of every acre of England,' Wales and Scotland in the hope that this national stocktaking of land use will serve as a standard of comparison with the past, a contribution towards the study of present problems and a basis of planning for the future. The field work, carried out by 20,000 volunteers, is virtually complete, and the results are being published as a series of coloured maps- on the scale of oni inch to one mile (of which 40 sheets have now been issued) and as a General Report in 87 County parts (of which the part for Berkshire has just been issued).
We hope that our work will be of service to our friends of the C.P.R.E. as well as to many others, but I venture to think they would not wish to be regarded as responsible London School of Economics, Houghton Street, Aldwych, London, W.C. 2.
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