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Your webmaster will return on March 4, 2015 and reply to inquiries at that time.

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Please see two newly posted events to be held at Library of Congress G&M Division.  Click HERE for Jay I. Kislak April 9 lecture "Shedding Light on Antiquity:  The Forensic Imaging and Study of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Manuscripts.  Click HERE for May 14-15 Phillips Map Society conference on polar regions.  Please allow a few seconds for the information to load in your browser.

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The Washington Map Society supports and promotes map collecting, cartography, and the study of cartographic history.

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For latest 2015 meeting information, click HERE .  NEW THIS YEAR!: WMS programs held at the Library of Congress G&M Division will be augmented by special display of rare maps and atlases relevant to the presentation or current events.  Non-members welcome to attend!

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See the "Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude" exhibit at the Folger, click HERE.

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WMS in 2014 celebrated 35 years serving the map enthusiast community, and the The Portolan journal completed 30 years and 90 issues!!  Click HERE for Bill Stanley's three part series about the history of the WMS.

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For a clear image of our logo and some historical background, click HERE.

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Click HERE for information the on the 2015 ICHC Meeting in Antwerp.

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For info on AAG Annual meeting, click HERE.

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Important Updates:

• Click HERE for John Docktor's exhibits and meeting pages updated two times per week at least.
• Click HERE for ongoing Facebook updates by Bert Johnson, Doug Lyons, Richard Moore, and Jeanne Brown Sander.

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John Delaney's book was published concurrently with the Princeton University exhibit "Commemorating the 350th anniversary of the naming of New Jersey, Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888,"  on view at Princeton through January 15, 2015.   Princeton has created a robust companion website to the book, that provides high-resolution images of all the maps, and simple order form for the book.  See http://library.princeton.edu/njmaps or click HERE.

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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.