Chronicle for 1995–1996

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Christopher Baruth was appointed interim director of the American Geographical Society at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Courtney C. J. Bond, author of many map-related articles and books and Head of the Canadian Section, National Map Collection, Public (now National) Archives of Canada, 1968-1971, died 16 November 1995, aged 85. David Bosse, Curator of Maps and Newspapers at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, left to become head of the library at Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts. David Cobb, Head of the Harvard Map Collection, was appointed editor of Meridian, published by the Map & Geography Round Table of the American Library Association. Michael R. C. Coulson was appointed editor of Cartographica, in succession to Bernard Gutsell. Edward H. Dahl was succeeded, after 12 years, as chairman of the International Society for the Curators of Early Maps by Robert W. Karrow. The election took place at the biennial meeting in Vienna in September 1995. Ed Dahl has also stepped down as associate editor of Cartographica. Oswald Dreyer-Eimbcke was appointed president of the International Map Collectors' Society. John Dwyer, Chief, Cartographic and Architectural Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, retired in September 1995. Matthew Edney was appointed Faculty Scholar of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education of the University of Southern Maine in September 1995. At the 1995 conference of the International Cartographic Association he was appointed Chair of the History of Cartography Commission, in succession to Monique Pelletier. F. G. Emmison, County Archivist of Essex, 1938-1969, and editor of the Catalogue of Maps in the Essex Record Office, 1566-1855, died 9 November 1995. Gunter Hamann, Professor of Modern History and the History of Science, University of Vienna, died 13 October 1994, aged 70. Francis Herbert was recipient of the IMCoS-R. V. Tooley Award for 1995. 228 Ralph Hyde, Curator of Prints and Maps at the Guildhall Library, London, won the second Alan Godfrey award, made in association with the British Cartographic Society, for a librarian who has furthered the use, appreciation and understanding of maps in an exceptional way. Julian Janczak, Professor of History at Wroclaw University, former Chairman of the Working Group on the History of Cartography, Institute of the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, died 11 January 1995. He was succeeded as Working Group Chairman by Stanislaw Alexandrowicz. Robert W. Karrow's, Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps has been listed as one of the 'Best Bibliographies in History' by the Bibliography and Indexes Committee of the History Section of the Reference and Adult Services Division of the American Library Association. The work was also named by Reference Quarterly as one of the best history bibliographies for 1995. William L. D. Ravenhill, former Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, died 9 October 1995. See obituary p. 212. Stephanie A. Roper, doctoral candidate in American History at the University of Kansas, won the 1995 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship with 'Image is everything: English maps of colonial North America as promotional tools, 1530-1660'. The runner-up was Martin J. Coulter, a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, with 'John Wood's plan of the cities of Aberdeen, 1828'. Harald Sigurdsson, National and University Library of Iceland, and author of Kortasaga Islands, died 20 December 1995, aged 87. Thomas R. Smith, former professor of geography at the University of Kansas, died 7 January 1996, aged 86. At his retirement in 1981, the university map collections were named in his honour. He was the author of Maps of the 16th to 19th Centuries in the Libraries of the University of Kansas: An Analytical Cartobibliography and of studies on the Thames School of chartmakers. Themis Strongilos was elected president of the Society for Hellenic Cartography in October 1995. David Woodward has been named Arthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was also appointed a Corresponding Fellow