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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:05:06 -0000
From: "Campbell, Tony" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Harley Fellowships Announced
Sender: "Campbell, Tony" <[log in to unmask]>




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>
> ANNOUNCING THE EIGHTH 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 eighth series of awards, offering support at a rate of 250
> pounds per week.  The fellowships are designed to assist research in the
> London map collections:-
>
> Dr Sonja Brentjes (Institute for the History of Science, Johann Wolfgang
> Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 'The use of Arabic and
> Persian sources in Western-European maps of the Middle East and Northern
> Africa between 1550 and 1700' (3 weeks).
>
> Neil Safier (Department of History, The John Hopkins University,
> Baltimore, Maryland, USA) 'Turning Water into Lines:  The Cartographic
> Construction of Amazonia from Fritz to Ferreira, 1707-1792' (3 weeks).
>
> René Tebel (German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, Germany) 'Significance of
> ships on maps as a historical source' (2 weeks).
> __________
>
> 13 submissions were received this time.  For details of past awards and
> numbers of applicants see:
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> http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/harlflws.html [part of the 'Map History' subject
> gateway site]
>
>
> For information about applying for a Fellowship (closing date 1st
> November) e-mail or 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.
>
>
> Tony Campbell, Hon. Sec.
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