Since the last Institute meeting on the Admiralty chart in 1967 the compilation office, formerly at Cricklewood, has been moved to a new building at Taunton, alongside our printing works established there in 1940. Thus, except for a small office in Whitehall, which keeps in touch with the ever changing defence scene, the whole of our organization is now concentrated at Taunton, from where every week between 30,000 and 40,000 Admiralty charts are despatched, through our agents, to navigators in every part of the world.

As readers of the Institute's Journal will know, to mark the 21st anniversary of the Institute a special edition, entitled The Navigation Explosion was published. Papers published in this edition highlight the very rapid advances which have been made during those 21 years as a result of a happy marriage between the ancient art of navigation and modern science and technology.