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     A Newsletter of the Texas Map Society           Vol IV No 1 Summer 2001

Table of Contents: Vol. IV, No. 1, Summer 2001

globe05.gif (269 bytes)  Texas Map Society Fall Meeting: From Longhorns to Lone Star Weather Maps
Preview of the upcoming Fall Meeting at The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. The meeting, held on October 5th and 6th, includes a Friday evening event and an outstanding slate of speakers for Saturday.

globe05.gif (269 bytes) Where Do I Go From Here?
By Lewis Buttery
Silk maps produced by the the U.S. Aeronautical Chart Service and the N.A.C.I. Hydrographic Office during World War II are the subject by of the article by founding member, Lewis Buttery.

globe05.gif (269 bytes) Spring Presentations on the Llano Estacado
By David Buisseret
A report on the presentations given at the Spring Meeting held at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

globe05.gif (269 bytes) For Want of a Good Map, Thirty-Eight Map Enthusiasts Lost in West Texas!
By Dennis Reinhartz
A lighthearted look at a "defining moment" in Lubbock as members encountered a west Texas phenomena
while wandering around the countryside.

globe05.gif (269 bytes) Off the Map: The President's Column
By Dennis Reinhartz
President Dennis Reinharz devotes his column to the Texas General Land Office's Adopt-A-Map program.

globe05.gif (269 bytes) Feature Map
By David Buisseret
Map of interest to members are a regular feature of the newsletter. In this issue, David Buisseret selects the 1693 small globe gores published by Vicenzo Maria Coronelli, Hos Globos Terraqueum. 

The Neatline is published semi-annually by the Texas Map Society, Box 19497, Arlington, Texas. 

Texas Map Society members who helped produce this issue are David Buisseret, Lewis Buttery, Kit Goodwin, Dennis Reinhartz, and Gerald Saxon.

A Neatline is the outermost drawn line surrounding a map. It defines the height and width of the map and usually constrains the cartographic images


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