--- Begin Forwarded Message --- 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]> > [Please excuse wide cross-posting] > > > 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: > > 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. > [log in to unmask] > --- End Forwarded Message ---