Announcements and Queries

The North Caroliniana Society and the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have published the limited edition William P. Cumming and the Study of Cartography: Two Brief Memoirs and a Bibliography, edited by Robert Cumming, which includes memoirs by Elizabeth Chandler Cumming of a year searching Europe for American maps with her husband and by Robert Cumming of both his parents, as well as a select bibliography of William Cumming’s scholarly publications. The volume comes out of the conference The Southeast in Early Maps held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill October 3-4, 1997, to honor the third edition of the late Dr. Cumming’s book The Southeast in Early Maps, newly revised and enlarged by Louis De Vorsey, Jr. (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1998). For information on William P. Cumming and the Study of Cartography, contact the North Caroliniana Society, North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, Campus Box 3930, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890.

David Stick has edited a new collection entitled An Outer Banks Reader (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1998), including several items on Roanoke colonization-related subjects. The collection received good reviews in the July 18th edition of the Outer Banks Sentinel and the August 9th edition of the Virginian-Pilot. (See "Roanoke Colonization-Related News Items," pages 3-4, for full citations of these reviews.)

The 18th International Conference on the History of Cartography will be held in Athens, Greece, from Sunday July 11, to Friday, July 16, 1999. For information on the conference, see the World Wide Web site at <http:// ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/18thcall.html>, or contact the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Konstantinou Avenue, GR-116 35, Athens, Greece; telephone +301 721 0554; fax +301 724 6212.

The Society of Early Americanists will be holding its first conference at the Lightsey Conference Center, College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 4-7, 1999. Plenary speakers include Mary Kelley, Department of History, Dartmouth College; Dell Upton, Department of Architectural History, University of California-Berkeley; Ann Smart Martin, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Department of History, New York University. For more information, see the Society of Early Americanists World Wide Web homepage at <http://www.hnet.uci.edu/ mclark/seapage.htm>, or contact the conference co-directors: Sharon M. Harris, SEA President, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0333, phone (402) 472-1857, e-mail <sharris@unlinfo.unl.edu>; or David Shields, SEA Vice-President, The Citadel, Charleston, SC 29409, phone (803) 953-5139, or email <shieldsd@citadel.edu>.