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Past News and Events
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Annual General Meeting 2007
The one hundred and sixty-first Annual General Meeting of the Hakluyt Society took place at the House of the Royal Geographical Society, London, on Wednesday, 27th June 2007. The chair was taken by Professor Roy Bridges, President of the Society, who welcomed our guest speaker, Dame Anne Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland (both pictured alongside).
For further details of the meeting and its proceedings, please click here.
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Visit by Sarah Tyacke, CB, Trustee of the Hakluyt Society, to North AmericaAs part of a campaign to promote the Hakluyt Society to potential supporters in North America and elsewhere, the Council of the Hakluyt Society sent one of our trustees, Sarah Tyacke, to meet and speak with our American colleagues.
For details of Sarah's North American tour, please click here.
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Awards recently received by members of the Society
We are delighted to report that three members of the Society have recently received prestigious awards.
For his work in recording the life of the indigenous peoples of South America in a series of outstanding books Dr John Hemming CBE has been awarded Peru's highest civil honour - the Gran Cruz de la Orden al Mérito por Servicios Distinguidos.
For his services in navigational matters relating to leisure sailing our Honorary Treasurer, David Darbyshire, becomes a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation.
In 2006 World Hydrography Day was inaugurated in the UN calendar on 21 June. To mark the event in this country, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office established the Alexander Dalrymple Award, named after the first Hydrographer, to be awarded annually to someone who had made an outstanding contribution to world hydrography. The first recipient, to huge acclaim, was Hakluyt Society member, Rear Admiral Steve Ritchie, Hydrographer of the Navy (1966-1971), President of the Directing Committee of the International Hydrographic Organisation (1972-1982) and distinguished author. In 2007 Captain Mike Barritt RN, who contributed to IHO capacity building work during the period 2003-2007, was especially delighted to be selected to follow in his footsteps.
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The President's Medal
With the approval of Council, the President has decided that the Society should be empowered to provide a means of giving formal recognition to anyone who has shown outstanding scholarship in respect of one or more of its volumes, or to one who has given outstanding service in furthering the objects of the Society. Hence, an occasional award to be known as The President’s Medal has been instituted.
The medal takes the form of a sterling silver medallion incorporating the Society’s logo, a quotation from Hakluyt, the date of foundation and the name of the recipient. The first holder was announced in June 2006 as Lt Cdr Andrew David, both for his service to the Society and for his editorial work on the Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages and the recent Malaspina volumes. Andrew David received the medal itself at a brief ceremony in October.
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