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IN THE GALLERY essay in the January issue, we unfortunately
omitted information about both the author and the source of the
image, so I begin this issue by correcting that mistake. Virginia
DeJohn Anderson is associate professor of history at the University
of Colorado. Her book, Creatures of Empire: People and Animals
in Early America, will be published by Oxford University Press
in 2005. The image is the Sommers Islands Shilling, Dickeson copy
[obverse], Numismatic CollectionsColonial Coins, Department
of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Notre Dame.
I apologize to Anderson and Notre Dame for the omission.
Graphics Editor Kathy Morse has
made this issue the best illustrated ever! The articles include
many striking images. This issue also includes three very different
Gallery essays. Robert Marks writes about a satellite
image of the Pearl River delta in China; Peter Mancall considers
a page from a seventeenth-century English natural history;
and Brian Black reflects on a photograph of the famous copse at
Gettysburg National Historical Park in Pennsylvania. Readers with
ideas about possible Gallery essays can contact Kathy
at kmorse@middlebury.edu.
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