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Subject:        E.G.R. Taylor Annual Lecture
Date:   Fri, 21 May 2004 17:09:50 +0100
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"The Eva G.R. Taylor Annual Lecture for 2004 will take place at 18.30
hours on Tuesday 26 October in The Ondaatje Theatre, Royal Geographical
Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR.  The Lecturer
will be Francis Herbert Hon. FRGS, Curator of Maps at the Royal
Geographical Society (with IBG), who will speak on ' ". . . to mesure
and compace the hevyn and erth and all the world large" : the RGS-IBG
Collections Taylored for study'.  There will be a small exhibition
relating to the subject in display cases outside the New Map Room.





  From 17.30 in the New Map Room - which displays one of the two complete
exemplars known of Matteo Ricci's 1644 (or later) world map in Chinese -
a 'pay bar' (drinks and sandwiches) will be available.  After the
Lecture supper will be served in the candle-lit 'Queen Anne'-style Main
Hall at a cost of £22.00 for two courses, with two glasses of wine and
coffee.  For the supper please book at least one week in advance
(stating if a vegetarian meal is required) with Mrs Gabriela Marques by
telephone (44-20-7591-3084) or by e-mail ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)."



Francis Herbert (the very same as above)

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