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Due to a prompt from two-thirds of the co-organisers of the Thursday
‘Maps and Society Lectures’ (Warburg Institute, London)
[www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html], and being in possession of the
facts, here are details of this year’s E.G.R. Taylor Annual Lecture
extracted from my near-completed database listing of the 50 years
(1960-2010) of these Lectures. Although organised this year by the Royal
Institute of Navigation – there is a rotating organisational roster
shared between RIN, SNR, Hakluyt Society, and Royal Geographical
Society-IBG - the appended announcement is edited (by the undersigned)
from the Society for Nautical Research’s Newsletter of August 2010, 79,
p.7:- 

 

“Royal Geographical Society, 5.30 for 6.30 pm, Thursday, 14 October
2010: Captain Hans Kok on ‘Dutch maritime charts between 1550 

and 1800’. 

 

The Royal Institute of Navigation will take the chair for this occasion.

 

Captain Kok began flying and navigating with KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines on
the last series of the four-engined propeller planes in intercontinental


operation [. . .]. His lecture, covering the golden age of Netherlands
maritime and chart-making activity, will describe the central control
over navigation 

and chart-making exercised by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as
distinct from the arrangements common in the English East India Company 

[. . .]. 

 

The lecture will be illustrated by slides of the charts and is free. A
candle-lit supper is held afterwards in the RGS and supper tickets (£25)
must be 

purchased in advance by 7 October on +44 (0)20 7591 3100 [Events Office,
RGS-IBG].”

 

Each of the E.G.R. Taylor Annual Lecture’s four co-sponsors will
probably have – for their respective members with internet access –
further and/or fuller details if needed.

Francis Herbert (not – yet - a member of RIN) 

[email protected]

 

 

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