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I'm a bit surprised to read that the first meeting hosted by American geographers to include geographers from other countries was held as part of the Education Congress of the Columbian World Exposition in Chicago in july 1893. According to my sources - a research on the geopolitical significance of Dutch cartographic exhibitions till World War II (I presented a paper on that theme during the ICHC in Boston/Portland) - such a meeting of American and European geographers already took place in Philadelphia in 1878. Several governments and geographical societies were invited to contribute to that conference with a cartographic exhibition of modern maps showing the progress on national and colonial mapping. Sincere Paul van den Brink Explokart Research Team University of Utrecht The Netherlands _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
