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Show I vestigatlon. The plan has a broad scope and Prof. Willis will bo away two years and possibly longer. The worldmap project is expected to take at least ten years to complot in this country and In Iow of the ac-cesli.ility ac-cesli.ility of Tibet an portions of South Africa and elsewhere, may never nev-er bo regarded as finished. Its object is to encourage topography topogra-phy work, to Increase geographical knowledge of the world and to secure se-cure a standard and reliable world authority. The project is an outgrowth out-growth of the conference callod by Great Britain and attended by all the Ambassadors at the Court of St. .lames when arrangements were perfected per-fected for the construction of the map on a uniform plan and on a scale of sixteen miles to the Inch. WORLD-MAP TO BE CONSTRUCTED Washington, Oct. 31. At the request re-quest of the Argentine government. Prof. Bailey Willis of tho United States Geological Survey, who has just returned from a South American tour In the Interest of the great geographical geo-graphical worldmap in which tho civilized powers are co-operating, has been selected to execute geological In- |