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Ann-Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

The University of North Carolina-Chapel 
Hill’s Ancient World Mapping Center has 
been awarded $390,000 by the National En­
dowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create 
a multilingual, online workspace for updating 
and expanding information about ancient ge­
ography. The center, based in the College of 
Arts and Sciences, promotes cartography, his­
torical geography and geographic information 
science through innovative and collaborative 
research, teaching, and community outreach. 
Through the two­year NEH­funded project, 
“Pleiades: An Online Workspace for Ancient 
Geography,” the center will assemble an in­
ternational community of scholars, teachers, 
students and enthusiasts to update informa­
tion assembled for the “Barrington Atlas of 
the Greek and Roman World.” The atlas’s 99 
maps recreate the world of the Greeks and 
Romans, from the British Isles to the Indian 
subcontinent and into North 
Africa, from around 1000 B.C. 
to 640 A.D. 

Rollins College’s Olin Library 
was awarded one of the 2005 
Florida Historical Records 
Grants by the Florida State 
Historical Records Advisory 
Board of the State Library and 
Archives of Florida. The $5,000 
grant will be used to arrange 
and describe the Olin Library’s 
Theodore L. Mead and Henry 
Nehrling Collections. Then, the 
collection will be on display 
in the Rollins archives. Mead 
and Nehrling were among the 
most prominent botanists in 
Florida a century ago. Mead (1852–1936), 
was a world­renowned horticulturist and 
entomologist who experimented with and 

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Self-caricature by Eldon 
Dedini. © Eldon Dedini 1986. 
Reproduced by permission of 
the Dedini Estate. 

hybridized orchids, bromeliads, caladiums, 
amaryllis and other tropical plants. Two 
orchids and fi ve butterflies were named 
after him. Nehrling (1853–1929), a leading 
horticulturist and ornithologist, was known 
for his work with amaryllis and was noted 
as the “father of caladium.” He has been 
called the “Patron Saint of Florida Gardens” 
and the “Botanical Sage.” The Olin Library’s 
collections include both scientists’ scientifi c 
writings on tropical Florida plants, as well 
as correspondence with other well­known 
scientists of their time. 

Acquisitions 

Magazine cartoonist Eldon Dedini donated 
his original art and personal papers to the 

Ohio State University Cartoon 
Research Library. Included in 
the gift are correspondence, 
business papers, idea files, 
rough sketches, and more than 
1,500 original cartoons. A native 
of California, Dedini sold his 
first cartoon to Esquire when he 
was 17. After two years of study 
at the Chouinard Art Institute in 
Los Angeles, he left school in 
1944 to work in the story de­
partment of Walt Disney. From 
1946 to 1950 Esquire had him 
under exclusive contract, and 
he not only wrote and drew 
his own cartoons, but also sup­
plied gags for fellow Esquire 
cartoonists such as Barbara 

Shermund and E. Simms Campbell. Since 1950, 
Dedini had a “first look” contract with The New 
Yorker, and, in 1960, he garnered the same 
arrangement with Playboy. He died January 
12, 2006. Dedini often stated that his goal was 
to produce a belly laugh, not just a smile or a 
chuckle, with his cartoons. 

188C&RL News March 2006

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