----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Posted to lismaps, MapHist, Maps-L, for which please excuse duplication. On the other hand, please post, where relevant, to other lists, preferably letting the undersigned know you have done so. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------- Two announcements relating to my distinguished predecessor Helen Wallis. ********************************************************** HELEN WALLIS - A CELEBRATION St Hugh's College, Oxford, Saturday 12 April 1997 -------------------------------- 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. ******************************************************** 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. --------------------------------------------------------- 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 ********************************************************** [log in to unmask] 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 **********************************************************