The Portolan

Issue #29 - Winter/Spring 1994

ARTICLES

Mapping the Wet Part : A Century and a Half of Physical and Geological Oceanography in the Coast Survey. By Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Jr.

Charlottesville Field Trip. A report by John P. Snyder and Charles A. Burroughs on the Society outing to the University of Virginia, Monticello, and Montpelier.

From the Round Earth’s Four Corners….The Smithsonian’s Power of Maps Revisited. A review of the exhibit by Dr. Lynn L. Remly.

Charting Religious Horizons: Holy Land Maps from the Halperin Collection. A report by Pearce Grove on the exhibit and symposium at the Gelman Library, George Washington University.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

SHORTER ITEMS

1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - August 1994.

2. Exhibitions and Meetings, January - June 1994.

3. The Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine