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The Trustees of the J.B. Harley Research Fellowships Trust Fund are pleased to announce the eighth series of awards, offering support at a rate of £250 per week. The fellowships are designed to assist research in the London map collections:-

Dr Sonja Brentjes (Institute for the History of Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 'The use of Arabic and Persian sources in Western-European maps of the Middle East and Northern Africa between 1550 and 1700' (3 weeks).

Neil Safier (Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) 'Turning Water into Lines: The Cartographic Construction of Amazonia from Fritz to Ferreira, 1707-1792' (3 weeks).

René Tebel (German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, Germany) 'Significance of ships on maps as a historical source' (2 weeks).