FINAL PROGRAM

The Society for the History of Discoveries
47th Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon
September 7-9, 2006
(with pre and post tours Sept 5 - 10)

The Society for the History of Discoveries (SHD) held its 2006 annual meeting in the US Northwest. This year’s general theme, Exploring The Wonders of the Northwest, was inspired by the location of our conference in Portland, Oregon. Portland is located less than an hour’s drive west of Mount Hood, near the Columbia River Gorge and the end of the Oregon Trail, less than an hour’s drive south of Mount St. Helens, less than an hour north of the Willamette Valley wine country, and about two hours east of the mouth of the Columbia River where Lewis and Clark first saw the Pacific Ocean in 1805. Historic Fort Clatsop, where the Corps of Discovery over-wintered from 1805-1806 is nearby. Crater Lake, which appears on the reverse of the state series of US 25 cent coins is yet another attraction just hours to the south. The Oregon Historical Society, where our official events opened, had on display its permanent exhibit “Oregon, My Oregon” as well as a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Astounding bibliographic treasures about the two explorers are housed at Lewis and Clark College and were on display.

Our 47th annual meeting began with an evening reception and self tour of the Oregon Historical Society on September 7. Earlier that day, those who scheduled their arrival to include the day in Portland were invited to a two hour guided coach tour introducing the town and its environs. The rest of the day was open with free time enjoying will be able to spend the time enjoying the many museums, galleries and shopping venues the town has to offer. The formal program was held at Portland State University and Lewis & Clark College, September 8-9, and included a variety of paper sessions. The annual dinner keynote speaker was Jack Nisbet, renowned researcher and lecturer, who spoke on “David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau, 1800-1812,” integrating the work of fur agent and cartographer David Thompson into the sagas of contemporary Pacific Northwest explorers George Vancouver and Captains Lewis and Clark.

In addition to the formal program, two field trips were arranged to take advantage of the region’s unrivaled natural wonders. A pre-conference one-day trip (Sept. 6) followed the Columbia River to its mouth, near the route taken by Lewis & Clark as they finally spotted the Pacific Ocean. Visits were made to the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center at Cape Disappointment in Ilwaco, Washington, then Fort Clatsop, and the Columbia River Maritime Museum and Astoria Column, both in Astoria, Oregon. A post-conference one-day trip (Sept. 10) proceeded up the Columbia River Gorge, stopped at Multnomah Falls and Bonneville Dam, and circled through the orchards around Mount Hood. The day ended at altitude 6,000 ft with a visit to the historic Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood.

The final program is provided below.

The Hilton Portland and Executive Tower, 921 S.W. Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204, was the conference hotel. All guest rooms were in the Executive Tower, and all transportation originated there. 

Tom Sander
SHD Program Chair
Vice President 2006 & 2007

FINAL PROGRAM

Tuesday 5 September
	Arrival of first participants Evening – Dinner on your own
Wednesday 6 September
	DISCOVER THE OREGON COAST - optional pre-tour Click here for tour details
Thursday 7 September
	DISCOVER PORTLAND – The Host City
	9 - 11 am	Guided coach tour of Portland and vicinity. Learn many fascinating facts and see the environs of our host city. Departure from and return to the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.
	All day	Self-Visits to Portland Museum of Art, Oregon Historical Society, Chinese Garden, Powell’s City of Books, the ‘Shanghai tunnels’, or take a "Spirit" River trip. Walk through this very compact city and enjoy tax-free shopping at a wide variety of national and local stores, including the Made in Oregon Store. Public transportation in the city center is FREE (in the Fareless Zone). All is very convenient to the conference hotel.
	3 - 5 pm	Conference Registration at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.
	5:30 - 8 pm	SHD 2006 Opening Reception at the Oregon Historical Society Entrance at 1200 SW Park Avenue. The Society’s two exhibit halls will be open for touring. Visit the permanent exhibit Oregon, My Oregon and the temporary traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution called The American Presidency – a Glorious Burden. (No food or drink in the exhibit areas.).
	8:30 - 10 pm	SHD Council Meeting (Board Room, B Level, Hilton Portland & Executive Tower)
Friday September 8
	SHD Paper Sessions & Annual Dinner
	8.00 – 8:45 am	Registration (inside Cramer Building Room 53, Portland State University [PSU])
	8:45 - 9:00 am	(Cramer Building, Room 53) Opening remarks Ralph Ehrenberg, SHD President Tom Sander, SHD Vice President and SHD 2006 Program Chair
	9:00 - 9:55 am	OPENING ADDRESSES (Cramer Building, Room 53) THE 2005 AND 2006 SHD ESSAY WINNERS (Chair: Carol Urness) Layers of Discovery: Exploration and Innovation in Oceania Alice Storey – Winner, SHD 2005 Essay Contest In This Sign You Shall Conquer: The Cross of the Order of Christ in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Cartography Matthew H. Voss – Winner, SHD 2006 Essay Contest
	SESSION 1A	(Cramer Building, Room 53)
	10:00-11:45 am	SCURVY AND EXPLORATION (Chair: Ed Dahl) Scurvy: A Vitamin Deficiency Disease Nancy Heidenreich Glimpses of Life of a Frontier Military Doctor: Scurvy at Fort Atkinson, 1819-1820 James Walker Scurvy and the Early Exploration of Canada Conrad Heidenreich
	SESSION 1B	(Cramer Building, Room 250)
	10:05-11:45 am	EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY ALONG THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST (Chair: Sandy Bederman) Beeswax, Teak and Castaways: Searching for Oregon’s Lost Protohistoric Asian Ship E. W. (Eb) Giesecke Francis Drake and Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeño: The Evidence of the Ming Porcelains Edward Von der Porten Wu Tang, Marco Polo, Zheng He & Drake: Secret Voyages to the Pacific Northwest Gunnar Thompson From Northeast Asia to the Pacific Northwest: “Marco Polo” Maps and Myths Benjamin Olshin
	11:45 am	Relocate to Smith Union (Parkway North), PSU, for lunch
	12 noon - 1:25 pm	Lunch (with An Update on the History of Cartography Project By Matthew Edney)
	1:25 pm - 1:40 pm	Return to Cramer Building
	SESSION 2A	(Cramer Building, Room 53)
	1:40  - 3:00 pm	ENCOUNTERS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST (Chair: Ky Kylander) Mapping the Territory of Oregon Robert Hamm Alexander Mackenzie, Explorer Bill Warren George Vancouver Meets Tlingit Indian Women Dee Longenbaugh
	SESSION 2B	(Cramer Building, Room 250)
	1:40  - 3:00 pm	SEAFARING: PACIFIC – ANTARCTICA – ATLANTIC (Chair: Richard Pflederer) On the Vessel Sailed by Bartholome Ruiz in 1526 Cameron Smith Who Discovered the Real Antarctic?  Arthur Ford The Leagues and Longitudes of Columbus Arne Molander
	3:00  - 3:15 pm	Relocation to Cramer Building, Room 53
	3:15  - 3:40 pm	DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES (Introduction by Ralph Ehrenberg, President, SHD) Non-Medically Related Maps by Medical Doctors, 1480 to 1900 Norman J.W. Thrower, SHD Fellow
	SESSION 3	Cramer Building, Room 53
	3:40  - 4:30 pm	EXPLORATION TO OPEN THE WEST OF AMERICA (Chair: Alberta Auringer Wood)  The French Maps of North America from Lahontan and Delisle to Le Page and Buache Gordon Sayre The Journey of Moncacht-Apé: Its Possible Effects on Contemporary Maps and on the Route of Lewis and Clark Don McGuirk (Paper delivered by James V. Walker)
	4:30  - 5:15 pm	Annual SHD Business Meeting (Cramer Building, Room 53)
	6:30 – 7:30 pm	Cocktail/Social Hour ( Salon Ballroom Foyer, Hilton Portland & Executive Tower) (Cash Bar)
	7:30 - 10:00 pm	SHD Annual Dinner (Salon Ballroom, Hilton Executive Tower) --Honoring of the new SHD Fellow for 2006 2006 – David Buisseret --Recognizing the Winners of the 2005 and 2006 SHD Essay Contests --Thanking Sandy Bederman, outgoing Secretary-Treasurer --Thanking meeting organizers Tom Sander and Jim Walker, and their spouses Jeanne and Barbara Keynote speaker was Jack Nisbet, prominent researcher and author who spoke about the activities of David Thompson on the Columbia River. Thompson was an 18-19th century northwestern fur trader and geographer. Nisbet's most recent book is the 2005 The Mapmaker's Eye - David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau. Salon Ballroom, Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.
Saturday September 9
	SHD Paper Sessions and Portland Overlook Day
	8:00 am	Depart Hilton Executive Tower (by motorcoach).
	8:25 am	Arrive Lewis & Clark College
	8:30 – 9:00 am	Morning refreshments (Albany Building)
	9:00 – 9:10 am	Remarks (Albany Building, Great Hall) Ralph Ehrenberg, SHD President Tom Sander, SHD Vice President, SHD 2006 Program Chair
	SESSION 4	(Albany Building, Great Hall)
	9:15 – 10:30 am	DISCOVERING ROCKS AND ISLANDS  (Chair: Bruce Solnick) The Discovery and Charting of Ripple Rock Michael Layland The Discovery of the northern Marshall Islands by the Spanish, between 1526 and 1568 Rod Lévesque Joseph Banks and Associates: Volcanoes and Geological Excursions Donald Hogarth
	10:30 – 10:45 am	Break
	SESSION 5	(Albany Building, Great Hall)
	10:45 – 12 Noon	ENCOUNTERS IN THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES (Chair: David Buisseret) Unguided Exploration, Poor Observations: Captain John Smith in Northern Virginia Matthew H. Edney Dressing and Undressing in the History of Discovery Anne Good The Mormons’ Role in Exploring the Interior American West Richard Francaviglia
	12 Noon	Closing Remarks (Albany Building, Great Hall) Ralph E. Ehrenberg, SHD President
	12 Noon - 1:00 pm	Buffet lunch in rooms adjoining the Great Hall
	12:30 - 1:45 pm	On-campus visits to the Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, the Watzek Library Special Collections, and selections from the traveling exhibition, Literature of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
	2:00 pm	Coaches depart Lewis & Clark College (front of Student Union)
	2:15 pm	Arrival at drop off point for tour of Japanese Gardens. Site overlooks downtown Portland and Mount Hood. (One coach continued immediately after Gardens drop-off to Hilton Portland & Executive Tower for those so desiring).
	4:00 pm	Coaches depart Japanese Gardens for Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.
	4:15 pm	Coach arrived Hilton Portland & Executive Tower. Formal end of SHD Annual Meeting. Evening open to enjoy at one of Portland’s many excellent restaurants.
Sunday September 10
	DISCOVER THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE AND MOUNT HOOD – optional post-tour (Click here for tour details)
Monday September 11
	Departures or continued personal touring to such locations as: ● Mount St. Helens National Monument, Washington ● Fort Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington ● Willamette Valley Wine Country (one hour from Portland) ● Further travels along the Oregon Coast ● Crater Lake National Park (5 hours south of Portland) ● Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Oregon (285 miles south of Portland)
(Arrive early or stay later to enjoy the many touring venues in the region.)

Program as of September 10, 2006

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