Compass Points is published quarterly in March, June, September and December. The Cave Surveying Group is a Special Interest Group of the British Cave Research Association. By subscribing to Compass Points you will automatically become a member of the CSG and will receive its quarterly journal. The closely related Cave Radio & Electronics Group (CREG) also publish a quarterly technical journal to which you can subscribe if you want to. Subscriptions to Compass Points should be made payable to CSG, and sent to the secretary, Andrew Atkinson. Further details below. If you also wish to subscribe to CREG the two can be done together, with the cheque made out to CREG and sent to their secretary Bill Purvis. Information sheets about the CSG and CREG are available. Please send an SAE or Post Office International Reply Coupon.

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Articles can be on paper, but the preferred format is ASCII text files with paragraph breaks. If articles are particularly technical (ie. contain lots of sums) then Microsoft Word documents (up to version 7.0) are probably best. We should be able to cope with most common PC word processor formats. We are able to accept discs from other machines, but please check first. We can accept most common graphics formats, but vector graphic formats are much preferred to bit-mapped formats. Photographs should be prints or well-scanned photos (eg. from a PhotoCD) supplied in any common graphics format. It is the responsibility of contributing authors to clear copyright and acknowledgement matters for any material previously published elsewhere.

COMPASS POINTS EDITOR

Wookey

734 Newmarket Road
CAMBRIDGE
CB5 8RS.
Tel: 01223 504881

E-mail: wookey@aleph1.co.uk

SUBSCRIPTION & ENQUIRIES

Andy Atkinson

31, Priory Avenue,
Westbury-on-Trym,
BRISTOL.
BS9 4BZ

Email:a@atkn.demon.co.uk

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The CAVE SURVEYING GROUP of the BCRA.

OBJECTIVES OF THE GROUP

The group aims, by means of a regular Journal, other publications and meetings, to disseminate information about, and develop new techniques for, cave surveying.

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © BCRA 1996. The BCRA owns the copyright in the layout of this publication. Copyright in the text, photographs and drawings resides with the authors unless otherwise stated. No material may be copied without the permission of the copyright owners. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors, and are not necessarily endorsed by the editor, nor by the BCRA.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES (amendments May 1996)

Publication U.K. Europe (air) & World:surface
World: Airmail
CSG Compass Points 4.50 5.50 8.00
These rates apply regardless of whether you are a member of the BCRA. Actual "membership" of the Group is only available to BCRA members, to whom it is free. You can join the BCRA for as little as £3.00 - details from BCRA administrator. Send subscriptions to the CSG secretary. Cheques should be drawn on a UK bank and payable to BCRA Cave Surveying Group. Eurocheques and International Girobank payments are acceptable. At your own risk you may send UK banknotes or US$ (add 20% to current exchange rate and check you don't have obsolete UK banknotes). Failing this your bank can "wire" direct to our bank or you can pay by credit card. In both these cases we have to pay a commission and would appreciate it if you could add extra to cover this.

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INTERNET PUBLICATION

THE CSG Web pages are at http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/surveying/csg.html