----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Over 125 persons attended the inaugural meeting of the Boston Map Society on Tuesday, April 11, 1995 hosted by the Harvard Map Collection. The first lecture was deleivered by Robert Karrow of the Newberry Library whose talk on the cartographic renaissance of the sixteenth century provided a stimulating history of early printed maps. The attendees then adjourned for a reception and exhibit of materials from the Map Collection. Entitled 'Ortelius and Friends: A Celebration of Sixteenth Century Maps,' the exhibit includes, among other items, Ortelius' Thatrum of 1570 and 1584; Mercator's Celestial Globe of 1551; Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates; Phillip Apian's 1568 map of Bavaria; and Richard Lyne's 1574 map of Cambridge, England. For those planning to visit the Boston area, the exhibit will remain open through May 1. ****************************************************************************** David A. Cobb Tel (617) 495-2417 Harvard Map Collection FAX (617) 496-0440 Harvard University E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Cambridge, MA 02138 VE * RI * TAS *****************************************************************************