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Though Poland has been for 33 yeans a member of the International Federation of Surveyors it is for the first time that the meeting of this association takes place in out country.

We take this opportunity to tell our visitors and friends as much as we can about the Polish surveyors and the de-velopment of surveying in Poland.

Mutual intercomunication brings understanding and friendship and helps in friendly co-existence of nations. For the last 15 years the Polish surveyors have worked at removing the traces of war, at towin and country planning, dndustrialisation and modemisation of agriculture. They saw all the misery caused by the war. That is why they sup-port the idea of peace friendship and copperation of nations.

The August issue of „Przegląd Geodezyjny” the journal of the Polish surveyors, is a speciai. copy. It aims at sho-wing:

— that the surveyors of the world have great tasks to achieve —

— that generał progress opens new vistas for surveying —

— that Polish surveyors take part in the most modern surveying work as: observation of artificial satelites, use of eleotronics in caloulation, scientific research connected with the Geophysical Year etc.

Apart from the professional side, connected with* generał progress, we want to show to our guests same of our country *— the geographacal centre of our professional work and the population we serve.

We would like our visitors to know better the country and nation which gave to the worłd Cur.ie-Skłodowsika, Chopin and Copernicus.

We would also like to show the surveyors of other •counbries the long tradition of our profession <in Poland and its historical importance.

In the XVI century Polish surveyors planned, crganized and accomplished the greatest agricultural reform in Europę — the so called „włóka measure”. It was done on a surface of morę than 1 000 000 km². In the same period systematical measurements were madę in the salt-mines at Wieliczka.

The first books on surveying, printed in Polish, appeared in the XVI century and the first scientific department of surveying was opendd in the XVII century at one of the oldest 'universities of the world — the Uniyersdty lin Gracow.

Throughout all the ages surveyors ihave been strictly connected with the land and its pepple, working for peace, social and economic progress.

Let those ideas, common to all the surveyors of the world, develop and flourish through mutual understanding and friendship.

Marla Curie-Sklodowska Mikołaj Kopernik Fryderyk Chopin