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Your webmaster will return on August 3, 2014.  In the interim he will only have occasional email contact.

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Click HERE for volunteer opportunity: Special Collections (Maps), DC Public Library.

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Click HERE for photos of the WMS 2014 gala annual dinner.

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Important Updates:

• Click HERE for John Docktor's exhibits and meeting pages updated on July 13, 2014.
• Click HERE for ongoing Facebook updates by Doug Lyons, Richard Moore, and Jeanne Brown Sander.

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Be among the first to see pre-publication announcement of John Delaney's book and cartographic record published concurrently with exhibit "Commemorating the 350th anniversary of the naming of New Jersey, Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888." Click HERE. (Large file, please be patient).  Also see exhibit poster HERE.

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Mr. Missinne's research in the Fall 2013 Portolan about the ostrich egg globe made Wired Magazine's "Most Amazing, Beautiful and Viral Maps of the Year" article, click HERE.  Notice the title quotes "Here Be Dragons" from the globe.  Click HERE for many more press listings. 

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(Ostrich Egg Globe:  For press updates, reprint rights, and image use, click HERE.  To order The Portolan #87 containing this and many other articles, click HERE.  To join the WMS, click HERE.)

MAJOR DISCOVERY:  OLDEST KNOWN GLOBE TO DEPICT THE NEW WORLD;  

POSSIBLE LINKS TO WORKSHOP OF LEONARDO DA VINCI.

ANNOUNCEMENT MADE IN THE PORTOLAN--JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY.

(WASHINGTON, DC. August 19, 2013] The discovery of the oldest surviving engraved globe to show the New World was announced today in Washington in The Portolan, a prestigious journal of cartography published by the Washington Map Society, in its Fall 2013 issue (#87).

The Portolan has been posted to all active members of the Society and subscribing institutions.  [Members who have not yet received their copies should allow for occasional USPS delivery delays.]  Order copies of the issue, with this article and more, by clicking HERE.  For more information about this discovery, click HERE.

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WMS members:  Click HERE for instructions on how to enjoy access to full site including memberhip directory, profiles, photo galleries, and members' Q&A to include collecting, buying, selling, displaying, etc.

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Washington Post interviews Dennis Gurtz, collector extraordinare  and former President of Washington Map Society.  Click HERE for full article.