Alexander von Humboldt
Friday, June 22, 2001    8:00am-10:00am
Science B, Room 135

Presenter Affiliation Country Presentation Title
Zbigniew Bialas, Chair
Paul Comtois Univ. of Montreal Canada “Alexander von Humboldt as a Politician, Thomas Jefferson as a Geographer, Convergent Visions of a Continent.”
Paul Blank California State Univ.- Humboldt USA “The Curse of the Tropics in the Writings of Humboldt and the Scientific Travelers of the Nineteenth Century.”
David Jim Nemeth Univ. of Toledo USA “Humboldt in North Africa.”
Santiago Daydí-Tolson Univ. of Texas USA “La comida, necesidad del viajero, en los escritos de Alexander von Humboldt.”