NYCkayaker Lecture on NY harbor - Sat Sept/8, 2:30PM

[Graeme Birchall]

Greetings;

Those of you who are not going kayaking next Saturday (Sept/8) may want 
to consider going to the NY Public Library main branch at 42nd St at 
2:30PM for a free public lecture by the New York Map Society.

SUBJECT:  "A Geographic Bicentennial".

PRESENTER:  John Cloud

DESCRIPTION:  The oldest scientific agency in the U. S. government, NOAA 
is descended from the Survey of the Coast, which Thomas Jefferson 
authorized in 1807. The Survey began as an exercise but became an 
institution, the Coast Survey, later known as the Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, and since 1970, as NOAA.  Under Ferdinand Hassler's direction 
(1832-1843), the very first initiative of the Survey was to establish a 
geodetic network around New York's harbor and bay.  This presentation on 
the cartographic treasures of the Survey will include imagery from a 
recent scanning project of Coast Survey records in the National 
Archives, including many original manuscript maps and rediscovered 
telescopic views of pastoral New York that have not been seen in more 
than a century.

LOCATION:  The meeting will be in the Library's auditorium.  Ask at the 
Information Desk if in doubt.

The NY Map Society website is:

   www.nymapsociety.org

Graeme