----------------------------Original message---------------------------- [please excuse wide cross-posting; please also post further where appropriate] ********************************************************************** ANNOUNCING THE FIFTH SERIES OF J.B. HARLEY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY ********************************************************************** The Trustees of the J.B. Harley Research Fellowships Trust Fund are pleased to announce the fifth series of awards, as follows: ----------- Karen C. Pinto (Department of History, Columbia University) `Ways of Seeing: The World in the Medieval Muslim Cartographical Imagination'. [3 weeks]. Dr. James C. Robertson (Department of History, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica) `Maps, Surveyors and Surveying: Framing the Initial English Settlement in Jamaica'. [2 weeks]. Jill Shefrin (independent researcher, Toronto, Canada) `Maps as Educational Aids in the Teaching of Geography to Children in England, 1760-1820'. [3 weeks]. ----------- As a direct result of fund-raising by the American Friends of the J.B. Harley Research Fellowships, Inc., from this year it has proved possible to increase the number and amount of the awards. Past awards have averaged four weeks in all, at a weekly value of 200 pounds. The 1998 awards have more than doubled the weeks to a total of eight (each week now worth 250 pounds) while increasing the number of awards made from two to three. It is expected that future awards should at least match this but any increase depends on further donations. If you are interested in details of tax-deductible dollar donations, please contact the American Friends, c/o Prof. David Woodward, 1443 Mound Street, Madison, WI 53711-2221. Those wishing to apply for a Fellowship (closing date 1st November) should write to the Hon.Sec., c/o British Library Map Library, 96 Euston Road, St Pancras, London NW1 2DB, preferably saying where you saw this notice. ******************************************************************* [log in to unmask] Tony Campbell, Map Librarian [We move June-August 1998] British Library Map Library Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG, UK Phone: 0171 412 7525 International: +44 171 412 7525 Fax: 0171 412 7780 International: +44 171 412 7780 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please see, bookmark and PROVIDE LINKS to:- 1. The British Library Map Library homepage http://www.bl.uk/ [click 'Collections', then 'Maps'] 2. The History of Cartography homepage http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/maps/ *******************************************************************