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From: Jim Bennett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 March 2011 12:49
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Subject: [rete] Annual E.G.R. Taylor Lecture - revised notice
[The RGS has issued this notice regarding the E.G.R. Taylor Lecture,
with some corrections and clarifications, and asked me to send it to the
list - Jim Bennett]
Thursday 13 October at 5.30 for 6.30pm
Annual E.G.R. Taylor Lecture
'Instruments, geography and scientific enquiry: guides to travellers and
method in nineteenth-century Britain and France'
by Charles W. J. Withers, Professor of Historical Geography, Institute
of Geography, University of Edinburgh.
In keeping with E G R Taylor's interests in the history of geography,
instrumentation and travel, this illustrated lecture will examine
printed guides to travellers as they helped promote geography as an
emergent science in the nineteenth century, highlighting amongst others
the work in the RGS of Julian Jackson and William Hamilton. Drawing upon
work in book history, geography and the history of science, the lecture
will illuminate the key but under-explored role of instruments and
instrumental training in understanding geography's many narratives of
exploration.
Lecture tickets: Lecture Attendance free, no booking required.
Supper tickets: £25.00 must be purchased in advance (by midday on 7
October) T 020 7591 3100
Venue: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London,
SW7 2AR
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