Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Volume 3.2 (May 1996)

Notes & Queries

David Beers Quinn writes that he celebrated his 87th birthday on April 24. Even though he cannot do as much as he once did, Quinn continues work on "Drake as Seen by His Contemporaries," "A New Document on the Carolina Voyage of 1663," "Some Implications of Cavendish's Circumnavigation 1586-88," and "R. A. Skelton's 150th Year" (a celebratory issue of the Hakluyt Society). Quinn's address is 9 Knowlsey Road, Liverpool, L19 OPF, UK.

 Michael Moran, a professor of technical communications at the University of Georgia, write that he continues "working on the communications associated with the Raleigh colonies." He read a paper on Thomas Hariot at the most recent American Culture Association meeting in Richmond, Virginia, and hopes to read a paper on Ralph Lane's report at the Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.

 S. Ambridge continues his work on connecting present-day sites in the North Carolina and Virginia region with locations mentioned in early works and indicated on early maps. He has sent the Roanoke Colonies Research Office a treatise on "The Possible Whereabouts of Ritanoe, Ohonahoirn, Peccarecannick, and Rickahockene." Ambridge's address is 3 Northern Avenue, Polegate, East Sussex BN26 6HQ, UK.

 Michael Oberg of Montana State University-Billings writes that he will be teaching a course on historiography using Roanoke colonization materials as his focus. He is also "toying with the idea of writing a biographical/ethnohistorical study of Pemispan," the Native American leader who raided Ralph Lane's 1585-86 colony. He would appreciate any help in locating materials that would assist him in the research. Oberg's address is Department of History, Montana State University-Billings, Billings, MT 59101-0298.

 Applications are invited by June 30, 1996, from any country or city that wishes to host the 2001 or 2003 International Conference on the History of Cartography. (The next two venues will be Lisbon, July 6-10, 1997, and Athens 1999.) For further details, contact Tony Campbell, Map Librarian, British Library Map Library, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, UK; e-mail tony.campbell@bl.uk; telephone (0171)412-7525; fax (0171)412-7780.

 A call for papers and other presentations for a conference on "Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1900" has been sent out by the American Philosophical Society Library. The conference will be held March 14-16, 1997. The format will feature 25-30 minute papers, sessions of ten-minute work-in-progress reports, and roundtable discussions on critical issues relating to the conference's theme. To submit a presentation proposal, send your name, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address along with a working title of the presentation, an abstract of not more than two double-spaced pages, and a brief CV or resume, all by October 1, 1996. The address us North American Exploration Conference, American Philosophical Society Library, 105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386; fax (215)4408579. Further information is available at the above address or by e-mail, ecarter@mail.sas.upenn.edu.

 An interesting World Wide Web site is the Columbus and the Age of Discovery Database at http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/.

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