At the Durham meeting, several papers were presented, including “The Chapel Royal and London Theatres in Harriot's Time,” by David Baldwin; “Lord William Howard (1563-1640) as a Collector and Antiquary,” by Richard Ovendan; “Shakespeare: New Evidence” (connecting Shakespeare with Christopher Marlowe), by A. D. Walker-Wraight; “Hariot, Ralegh, and the Process of Time,” by Moray McConnachie; “Thomas Harriot's Ballistics and English Renaissance Warfare,” by Stephen Walton; and “Musical Models in Natural Philosophy in the Time of Harriot,” by Penelope Gouk.

At the Cambridge meeting, papers were presented on “Producing a Customised Atlas, 1587: A Study of the Practical Links between Lord Burghley, Martin Frobisher, John Dee, Robert Norman, Thomas Harriot, John White, and the Planning of a City Procession for 1587,” by Robert Baldwin; “Science in Harriot's London,” by Deborah Harkness; “Herbals in Hariot's Time,” by Karen Reeds; “Harriot's Number and Letter Squares,” by Jim Reeds; “Navigation in Harriot's Time,” by Eric Ash; “Elizabethan Anti-Semitism and Protestantism,” by Elaine Glaser; “Foxe's Book of Martyrs—John Foxe and 'Gentile Knowledge,'” by David Loades; and “Harriot's Alchemy,” by Stephen Clucas.

The papers presented at the Harriot Seminar meetings are abstracted in the seminar's newsletter, The Harrioteer, issued twice a year. The Harrioteer, for which donations are greatly appreciated, is available from the seminar. In addition, the newsletter includes information about its seminars and lectures. The next meeting of the Thomas Harriot Seminar will be in Durham from December 18 to 20, 2000.

Many of the papers presented at the seminar meetings become pamphlets in the Harriot Seminar's series of occasional papers. To date, the seminar has published 30 titles:

    1.    Thomas Hariot and the Northumberian Household, G.R. Batho.

    2.    John White, Thomas Harriot and Walter Raleigh in Ireland, W.A. Wallace.

    3.    The London Pharmacopoeia Perfected, M.P. Earles.

    4.    Obstetrics and Hermaphrodites in Harriot's Time, D. Wilson.

    5.    Thomas Harriot and the Fauna of North America, Wilma George.

    6.    The Role of Time in Life and Thought in the Age of Harriot and Today, G. J. Whitrow.

    7.    James IV: Sovereign and Surgeon, A.I. Short and T. Lennard.

    8.    Thomas Harriot and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics, Vivian Salmon.

    9.    Harriot and the Latin Culture of His Time, James Binns.

    10.  Harriot's Gift to Arthur Dee: Literary Images from an Alchemical Manuscript, Lyndy Abraham.

    11.  Harriot, Marlow and the Art of War, Nina Taunton.

    12.  Sassafras: A Cure-All of Harriot's Time, Gillian Mirrlees.

    13.  Narratives of Land by Antiquarians of Harriot's Time, Melanie Hansen.

    14.  Astrology in Harriot's Time, Richard Dunn.

    15.  Astronomy in Harriot's Time, Eric Aiton.

    16.  Walter Warner on Space and Time, Jan Prins.

    17.  Invisible Evidence: The Unfounded Attack on Thomas Harriot's Reputation, Dr. B.J. Sokol.

    18.  Angels in Harriot's Time, Elizabeth Robertson.

    19.  The Prison Writings of Sir Walter Raleigh and the Ninth Earl of Northumberland, G.R. Batho, Stephen Clucas, and
            Anna Beer.

    20.  Barlowe, Lane and Harriot's Accounts of the New World, Paul Harvey.

    21.  John Dee and European Alchemy, Urszula Szulakowska.

    22.  Cartography in Thomas Harriot's Circle, Robert Baldwin.

    23.  The First Virginia Voyage: The Cavendish Connection, Sue Maxwell.

    24.  Thomas Harriot and the Guiana Voyage in 1595: Shaping the Reputation of Sir Walter Ralegh, Rosalind
            Davies.

    25.  Telesio's Psychology and the Northumberland Circle, Leen Spruit.

    26.  Watching the Watch, Nina Taunton.

    27.  The Engraved Title-Page of Bacon's Instauratio Magna, A. D. Burnett.

    28.  Ralegh's History of the World: Its Purpose and Significance, Jenny Wilson.

    29.  Musical Models in the Time of Harriot, Penelope Gouk.

    30.  Thomas Harriot's Ballistics, Stephen A. Walton.

Seminar papers are available for £3.50 each plus 50p postage and handling. Checks in British pounds for the papers or for donations to cover the cost of receiving The Harrioteer should be made out to the seminar chairman, G. R. Batho, and sent to him at the following address: G. R. Batho, School of Education, University of Durham, Leazes Road, Durham DH1 1TA, UK. Information concerning the Harriot Seminar and its activities is also available at telephone number (0191) 374 3497/8 or by fax at (0191) 374 3506.