Op Tweede Pinksterdag, 5 juni 2006 overleed in een verzorgingstehuis in De Bilt op 87-jarige leeftijd prof. dr. ir. Cornelis Koeman, de grondlegger van de wetenschappelijke beoefening van de cartografie in Nederland.

This biography appears on the occasion of Ferjan Ormeling's 65th birthday and his retirement as Professor of Cartography. Ferjan Ormeling studied geography in Groningen. Since 1969 he worked at the cartography department at Utrecht University, where he received his PhD in 1983 and was appointed professor in cartography in 1985. Ormeling is active in various fields of cartographic research such as atlas cartography and toponymy. Besides, he is active in various organisations, e.g. the Dutch Association for Cartography (now part of Geo-lnformation of the Netherlands), the International Cartographic Association, the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names and the Scientific Atlas of the Netherlands Foundation.

The gradual realization by Günter Schilder of his monumental series Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica is dealt with here, on the basis of interviews with the author. At an early date its aims were established as: the unveiling and inventory of the map and atlas production in Amsterdam in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, focusing on the Dutch participation in the early geographical discoveries, and the conservation, restoration and the production of facsimiles of those maps in order to safeguard this material for the future. The selection of the material is accounted for, both regarding the publishers and authors and the selection of map types. Input by three different publishing houses (Israel, Canaletto and Hes & De Graaf) during this project is indicated as well. The series was completed by volume IX. To improve access to the whole series a general index of personal names, maps by region and a dozen thematic subjects covered by all nine volumes has been compiled.

Tweehonderd jaar geleden begon Alexander Numan (1780-1852), de grondlegger van het veterinaire onderwijs in Nederland, aan zijn colleges in de Algemene Ziektekunde aan de pas opgerichte 'sRijks Veeartsenijschool in Utrecht. Van deze colleges is een handgeschreven collegedictaat bewaard gebleven. Hierin gaat Numan uitvoerig in op de ziekteclassificatie, de oorzaken van ziekte en de ziektesymptomen, in de traditie van de klassieke achttiende-eeuwse geneeskunde. Van dit collegedictaat zijn verschillende versies overgeleverd. Bert Nederbragt heeft ze grondig bestudeerd en presenteert in dit boek de versie die het dichtst bij de oorspronkelijke tekst komt. In zijn inleiding gaat Nederbragt in op de oprichting van 'sRijks Veeartsenijschool, de inhoud en organisatie van het onderwijs, de rol van collegedictaten en de kennis van (vee)artsen. Daarnaast geeft hij een uitgebreide toelichting bij het collegedictaat zelf. Dit boek biedt zo een helder beeld van hoe er begin negentiende eeuw werd gedacht over ziekte van mens en dier.

Jan Broek grew up in the Netherlands and took his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Utrecht. He completed his doctorate following extended travel and research in the United States. After a few years working in the Netherlands, he returned to America, spending most of his academic life in geography at the University of California at Berkeley (1936–46) and at the University of Minnesota (1948–70) , with a short period back at the University of Utrecht (1946–8) . Broek contributed substantially to human, historical and regional geography through his monograph on the Santa Clara valley in California, in several publications on Southeast Asia, in writings about geographic thought, and in works intended for students. Also, and perhaps as importantly, he led the development and expansion of the graduate programme at Minnesota to a position of eminence in world geography.