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There could be something of interest to all three internet discussion lists – to which, with no apologies, this is posted - in the message of 17 March originally addressed to Tony Campbell (see below) for his ‘Map History’ gateway site [http://www.maphistory.info/].
As one explanation for delay in my re-posting of Gene Keyes’ message I had first to contact Prof. Harry Steward FRGS (a Briton sometime teaching at Clark University, Worcester MA’s, Graduate School of Geography) in order to discover what was the progress of presentation (or of publication) of his own researches into Cahill. (See his entry in ‘D9’ of 1998 that includes “map projection and geosophical interests of Bernard Cahill . . .”). Part of Prof. Steward’s to me reply on 22 March was –
“I contacted Gene Keyes and had an amiable reply, and we have agreed on further correspondence. I’m now disinterring/re-absorbing my Cahill material; including two draft articles which never got offered for publication [. . .] Mr. Keyes and I overlap but don’t coincide. My preliminary title was “Bernard J. Cahill: The Butterfly Map and Cartographic Geosophy”: a bit different from his thrust.”
There is a considerable amount of Cahill correspondence – with exemplars (some annotated in MS) of his printed works - in the Archives Collection at the RGS-IBG, which is not mentioned by Gene Keyes on his site but has been examined by Harry Steward; this runs from 15 August 1913 to January 1938. Also present is Cahill’s election to FRGS (April 1913) form with note of his resignation therefrom in 1932. Sir Charles Close (ex-DG of Ordnance Survey, etc.) in 1938 passed a letter to RGS Secretary, A.H. Hinks FRS, writing that he would no longer discuss the matter (a projection) with Cahill. A brief look at Cahill’s letters (in black, red, blue, & purple ink; then typed with MS insertions) reveals, to the undersigned, some striking similarities in character with the American Rev. W.A.B. Coolidge FRGS (of Alpine geography, history, and climbing fame): ‘touchy’, cynical, and – in spite of his (Cahill’s) British birth – anti-British establishment.
Francis (‘the undersigned’) Herbert
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Campbell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 17 March 2009 17:36
>To: Francis Herbert
>Subject: Site about Cahill's Butterfuly map
>Searching for the fate of Oddens, I came across your site. May I call your attention to my B.J.S. >Cahill Butterfly Map Resource Page, which presents the world map designs and papers of Bernard J.S. >Cahill (1866-1944), British-born architect and [neglected] cartographer.
>http://www.genekeyes.com/B.J.S._CAHILL_RESOURCE.html
>Best regards,
>Gene Keyes