This document discusses tacheometry, which is a method of distance measurement using a transit theodolite fitted with a stadia diaphragm and anallatic lens. An anallatic lens is an additional convex lens provided between the eyepiece and object glass of the instrument to make the additive constant equal to zero. This simplifies distance calculations by making it dependent only on the multiplying constant. The document provides examples of using stadia readings to calculate distances and defines various terms used in tacheometry such as focal length, stadia intercept, multiplying constant, etc. It also discusses the working principle of an anallatic lens and assigns notation for different optical components. Home assignments on deriving formulae for inclined