Map collector to discuss myth of 'When California Was an Island'

Author and map collector Glen McLaughlin will give an illustrated talk, "When California Was an Island," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 23, in Building 320, Room 105. McLaughlin will discuss how early European explorers and cartographers mapped California as an island, even after a Jesuit priest had walked from Mexico to California on dry land. The lecture is sponsored by the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Sally Treadway at 723-9426. SR