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Two announcements relating to my distinguished predecessor
Helen Wallis.
 
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             HELEN WALLIS - A CELEBRATION
 
   St Hugh's College, Oxford, Saturday 12 April 1997
 
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Dr Wallis is to be the subject of a one day seminar, in
an occasional series honouring distinguished graduates
of St Hugh's College.  The speakers will be:
 
Janet Backhouse: Helen Wallis's Roxburghe Club edition
of the Rotz Atlas for Viscount Eccles
 
Tony Campbell: her innovative work as a map librarian
and her contribution to learned societies
 
Andrew David: her place in the cartographic history of
Pacific discovery
 
Dr Elly Dekker: her studies on early globes
 
Brenda Hall: her place in the recent history of St
Hugh's
 
Ann Shirley: her work on Sir Francis Drake's
circumnavigation and  Frobisher's Arctic voyages
 
Dr Frances Wood: her research on Chinese cartography and
the Chinese globe
 
The day will conclude with a festival evensong in the
chapel, where there is now a plaque in her memory.
 
All are welcome to attend.  To reserve a place, please
write to Mrs Susan Clear, 62 St Bernard's Road, Oxford,
OX2 6EJ, enclosing a cheque for 30 pounds payable to the
Association of Senior Members, St Hugh's College (to
cover lunch and refreshments).
 
Full details will be sent out some weeks before the date
of the Celebration.
 
 
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              HELEN WALLIS FELLOWSHIP
                The British Library
 
An annual fellowship is to be established in memory of Dr
Helen Wallis OBE, former Map Librarian at the British
Library, to promote the complementary use of the
Library's book and cartographic collections. Preference
will be given to proposals which relate particularly to
the Library's collections, which seek to explore the
interdependence of cartographic and other sources in
historical investigation, and which have an international
dimension.
 
The fellowship would normally be for a minimum of six
months and a maximum of one year.  The fellow would have
all the privileges of the non-stipendiary Centre for the
Book Fellows with, in addition, a voucher to be spent in
the British Library on photographs, books or other
charged services.
 
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N.B. Because of the temporary unavailability of material
during the British Library's move to the new St Pancras
building in 1997 and 1998, the Wallis Fellowship will be
launched in Autumn 1998.
 
THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE FIRST AWARD WILL BE 1 MAY 1998
 
 
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Tony Campbell, Map Librarian
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
 
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