----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Counter-statement There has been a Press release in MapHist and Maps-l published by the Multicultural Discovery Project in Honolulu. Subject: Discovery - Irish Settlement in America by 1350 AD. In the end of this press release you will find the sentence: "His discovery of a 1414 survey map of North America by the English friar Nicholas of Lynn, was reported in the prestigious journal, _Cartographica Helvetica_, in January." What does it mean? In the journal Cartographica Helvetica we have published an article by Arthur Duerst about the world map by Albertin de Virga from 1411 or 1415 and not about the map of Lynn. Sincerely Thomas Kloeti Co-Editor of Cartographica Helvetica -------------------------------- Dr. Thomas Kloeti Tel. ++41 31 320 32 48 Stadt- und Universitaetsbibliothek Fax ++41 31 320 32 99 Postfach CH-3000 Bern 7 Schweiz / Switzerland Email: [log in to unmask] http://ubeclu.unibe.ch/stub/ryhiner/ryhiner.html