Contributors

Charles L. Batten, Jr ., is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. In Pleasurable Instruction (University of California Press, 1978), he investigates the generic convention of eighteenth-century travel literature. He is currently tracing the influence of eighteenth-century travelers on philosophical controversies in England.

Daniel A. Baugh is Professor of Modern British History at Cornell University. He is the author of British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole (1965) and the editor of Naval Administration, 1715-1750 (1977), and he has written articles on both maritime and non-maritime subjects within the period from 1660 to 1830. He is presently writing a book on Great Britain's "Blue-Water" policy from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Seymour Chapin is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Los Angeles. He has published extensively on the history of French science, scientific institutions, and scientific voyaging in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Derek Howse was the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1983-1984, having retired the previous year as Head of Navigation and Astronomy at the National

Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. Among his publications are The Sea Chart (with M. Sanderson, 1973), Greenwich Time and the Discovery of the Longitude (1980), A Buccaneer's Atlas (edited with N.J. W. Thrower; University of California Press, forthcoming), and Nevil Maskelyne, the Seaman's Astronomer (1989).

John O. Sands is Manager of Administration in the Collections Division of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He was previously senior curator for the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

Glyndwr Williams is Professor of History at Queen Mary College, University of London. A former president of the Hakluyt Society, his main research interest is the exploration of North America and the Pacific in the eighteenth century. His most recent books are (with P.J. Marshall) The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (1982) and (edited with Alan Frost) Terra Australia to Australia (1988).