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Subject: RE:      cartography/discovery essay prize]
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:05:25 -0800
From: Diaz, Carlos <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>

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Says on the message that the deadline is past.  Jan. 5, 2005.

Is that a correct date?


Carlos A. Diaz
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
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Subject: cartography/discovery essay prize
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:31:57 +1100
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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Forwarded from a funding list.

>Program Number:   81847
>Title:            Prize Essay
>Contest
>
>Sponsor:          Society for the History of Discoveries
>
>SYNOPSIS:
>  The sponsor administers an annual prize essay contest.  The sponsor
> seeks essays on the topics embraced by the Society's name: the history
>of discoveries. Essays may deal with voyages, travels, biography, history,
>cartography, techniques and technology, or other aspects of
>discovery. The primary purpose is to enlighten the reader on some aspect
>of mankind's exploration of the world.
>
>Deadline(s):      01/05/2005
>Established Date: 11/01/2005
>Follow-Up Date:   01/02/2006
>Review Date:      11/01/2005
>
>Contact:          Professor Carol
>Urness
>
>
>Address:          SHD Prize Essay Contest
>                   James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota
>                   309 19th Avenue South
>                   Minneapolis, MN 55455
>                   U.S.A.
>E-mail:           [log in to unmask]
>
>
>Program URL:
>http://www.sochistdisc.org/essay-contest.htm
>
>Tel:              612-788-6570
>Fax:              612-626-9353
>Deadline Ind:     Receipt
>Deadline Open:    No
>
>
>
>Award Type(s):    Prizes/Awards
>
>
>Citizenship/Country of Applying Institution:                   Any/No
>Restrictions
>
>Locations Tenable:    Any/No Restrictions
>
>Appl Type(s):     Graduate Student
>                   Undergraduate Student
>
>Target Group(s):  NONE
>Funding Limit:    $600
>Duration:         0
>Indirect Costs:   Unspecified
>Cost Sharing:     No
>Sponsor Type:     Professional/Academic Assoc & Soc.
>
>
>Geo. Restricted:  NO RESTRICTIONS
>
>CFDA#:
>
>OBJECTIVES:
>  The sponsor seeks essays on the topics embraced by the Society's name:
> the history of discoveries. Essays may deal with voyages, travels,
> biography, history, cartography, techniques and technology, or other
> aspects of discovery. The primary purpose is to enlighten the reader on
> some aspect of mankind's exploration of the world.
>
>ELIGIBILITY
>  Any post-secondary (college or university) student from any part of the
> world who will not have received a doctoral degree before May 1,
>2005 is eligible to enter the contest.
>
>FUNDING
>  The winner will receive a prize of $600. The winner will be invited to
> make an oral presentation about the paper at the annual meeting of the
> Society for the History of Discoveries. The next meeting will be held in
> Cody, Wyoming from September 9-11, 2004. The 2005 meeting will be held in
> Williamsburg, Virginia. Additionally, the essay will be considered for
> publication in the Society's journal, Terrae Incognitae. (cmb)
>
>KEYWORDS:         History
>                   History of Science & Technology
>                   Cartography

Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator
ERC Library
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010
AUSTRALIA
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