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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>Dear members of International Society for the History of the Map (ISHM) and readers of postings to the ListServ of the ISHM:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>This thrice-yearly journal with articles on maps, the history of cartography, and exploration is the only journal of its kind in the Americas. Below is information on the Winter 2016 issue recently published and mailed. See </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</a> <span style='font-family:Univers'> for details on ordering the current or past issues of “<i>The Portolan”</i>. That link also takes the reader to the contents list of all back issues and an index to those issues. The focus of the society and the journal is not solely Washington; topics are widespread in scope. </span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>"<i>THE PORTOLAN</i>": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY<br>ISSUE 97 (Winter 2016)<br></span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Issue 97 (Winter 2016), consisting of<span style='color:red'> </span>84 pages, was published in November 2016 and is in distribution to all paid subscribers and members in good standing of the Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>JOHN RENNIE SHORT</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'> explores the modern national atlas. <b>PETRA SVATEK</b> discusses academic cartography at the University of Vienna from 1848-1900. <b>HAROLD MEINHEIT</b> explores an 1838 map of Vietnam by Bishop Jean-Louis Taberd being used in national disputes today over the Paracel Islands. <b>GUNNAR THOMPSON</b> proposes new information about the North Atlantic, and especially Newfoundland. <b>JAMES GOODE</b> concludes a four-part series highlighting treasures in the Albert H. Small Collection of Washingtoniana. <b>BERT JOHNSON</b> provides an early look at the coming July 2017 International Conference on the History of Cartography. And there is more.<span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>"The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 98 is due for release in late March 2017.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>CONTENTS OF ISSUE 97 – Winter 2016<br></span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'> <br><b>ARTICLES<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“The Modern National Atlas” by John Rennie Short</span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-family:Univers'>“Medicine – Archaeology – Geography: Academic Cartography at the University of Vienna 1848-1900” by Petra Svatek</span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“The Bishop’s Map - Vietnamese and Western Cartography Converge “ by Harold E. Meinheit </span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'>“Newfoundland’s “Circle Island Group:” Gateway to Legendary Fortunes in Early North Atlantic Commerce and the Northwest Passage” by Gunnar Thompson</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“The Albert H. Small Map Collection, Part 4” by James M. Goode</span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“27th ICHC - Brazil – July 2017” by Bert Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>RECENT PUBLICATIONS</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'><br>This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers;color:#C00000'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>BOOK REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><a href="http://www.orteliusmaps.com/">Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 – Life, Works, Sources and Friends</a></i><b> </b><span style='font-family:Univers'>(Reviewer: Fredric Shauger)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>SHORTER ITEMS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpLast style='margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Univers'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:Univers'>President’s Winter 2016 Letter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Univers'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Univers'>Winners Announced, Ristow Prize Competition 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style='margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Univers'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:Univers'>Washington Map Society Meetings: December 2016 – March 2017 </span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Univers'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:Univers'>Exhibitions and Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Univers'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:Univers'>Map Site Seeing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Univers'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:Univers'>Ristow Prize Competition 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Univers'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>7.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:Univers'>Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Univers'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>8.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:Univers'>Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Kevin Brown, Leah Thomas, Leslie Trager <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>JAMES GOODE</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>, the author of several books on the history of Washington, D.C., </span><span style='font-family:Univers'>has been the curator of the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection since 1992.</span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>BERT JOHNSON</span></b><i> </i><span style='font-family:Univers'>is a past president of WMS. He has attended the last nine ICHC’s and looks forward to Belo Horizonte.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>JOEL KOVARSKY</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>, proprietor of The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books, is the author of the 2014 book “The True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson's Cartographic Vision.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>DR. PETRA SVATEK</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'> is a member of the Department of History, University of Vienna, Austria. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>HAROLD E. MEINHEIT</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'> is a former American diplomat who spent much of his career in Asia, including Vietnam. He is currently secretary of the Washington Map Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>THOMAS SANDER</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'> is editor of “The Portolan” and a Past President of the Washington Map Society and the Society for the History of Discoveries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>FREDRIC SHAUGER </span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>is President Emeritus of the New York Map Society. This is his fourth book review in “The Portolan”.</span><i><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>DR. JOHN RENNIE SHORT </span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>is Professor in the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. He has published on a wide variety of subjects and is a frequent contributor to academic journals</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>DR. GUNNAR THOMPSON </span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>is Chief Archaeologist at the New World Discovery Institute in Seattle. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society: </span><a href="http://www.WashMapSociety.org"><span style='font-family:Univers'>http://www.WashMapSociety.org</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> <br>A <b>listing and index of the contents</b> of all issues of 'The Portolan' is accessible at </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm"><span style='font-family:Univers'>http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> <br>Also at </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</a> <span style='font-family:Univers'> is information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>on how to order and locate issues of the journal, and procedures for prospective authors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>Online links to several past articles are also at the “Portolan” web page.<br> <br><b>Membership/Subscription Cost:</b> Subscription cost is the same as membership, and may be commenced at any time. To U.S. addresses, the cost is US $45.00 per year. To Canadian addresses the rate is US $50.00 per year. For other foreign addressees, the annual cost is US$ 65.00. Multiple year memberships/ subscriptions are available; the annual cost is reduced if a multiple year membership is chosen – see web site. All non-US address copies of the journal are sent airmail; the US Postal Service no longer offers a surface option. Payment is accepted in US dollars only. Payment may be made via PayPal for membership/subscriptions and back issues. Membership/ subscription/PayPal details form can be found at the Washington Map Society Web Site below. For further information, contact John Docktor at </span><a href="mailto:washmap@gmail.com"><span style='font-family:Univers'>washmap@gmail.com</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><br><b>Current/Past Copies</b>: Copies of 'The Portolan' beginning with issue 66 cost US$16.00 postpaid for US; $18 postpaid to Canada, and $23 to other foreign addresses. Payment is accepted in US dollars only, and may be paid via check or PayPal. Issues 65 and earlier are available at a lower cost. A discount is given for orders of multiple issues. See </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/Purchase-of-Back-Issues.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/Purchase-of-Back-Issues.htm</a><span style='font-family:Univers'> for details on ordering the current or past Portolans.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>****************************************<br>Posted By:<br>Thomas F. Sander<br>Editor, 'The Portolan'<br>Washington Map Society<br>9501 Burke Road, # 10793<br>Burke, VA 22009-8036 USA<br> <br>Phone: 703.426.2880 International: +1.703.426.2880 Fax: 703.426.2881 <br>E-mail: Sanderva@erols.com<br>Washington Map Society Web Site: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:Univers'>www.WashMapSociety.org </span></span><u><span style='font-family:Univers;color:blue'><br></span></u><span style='font-family:Univers'>Portolan Web Site: </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</a> <span style='font-family:Univers'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>**************************************************<br><br>excuse cross-posting</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>