=1594.= Robert Hues printed in London a Latin treatise on the Molineaux globes, _Tractatus de Globis, et eorum usu_. This includes a chapter by Thomas Hariot on the rhumbs, or the lines which so perplexingly cover the old maps. =1596.= Another edition of Hood’s corrected issue of Bourne’s _Regiment of the Sea_. =1596.= Second edition of Norman’s _Newe Attractive_, etc. =1596.= John Blagrave’s _Necessary and Pleasaunt Solace and recreation for Navigators.... Whereunto ... he has anexed another invention expressing on one face the whole globe terrestrial, with the two great English voyages lately performed round the world_. This last is a map by Hondius, reproduced in Drake’s _World Encompassed_ (Hakluyt Soc. ed.). =1596.= Thomas Hood’s _Use of the mathematicall Instruments, the Crosse Staffe differing from that in common use, and the Jacob’s Staffe_. =1596.= Seventh edition of Eden’s version of Cortes. =1597.= Second edition of _Blundevile, his Exercises_. =1597.= William Barlow’s _Navigator’s Supply, containing many things of principal importance belonging to navigation_. Largely on compasses. =1598.= John Wolfe translated and printed _A treatyse ... for all seafaringe men, by Mathias Sijverts Lakeman, alias Sofridus_. =1599.= Simon Stevin’s _De Haven-vinding_ appeared at Leyden, and Edward Wright brought it out at once in English, as _The Haven-Finding Art_. =1599.= Edward Wright published his _Certain Errors in Navigation, detected and corrected_. Wright was born in 1560, was lecturer on navigation for the East India Company, was the verifier and improver of Mercator’s projection, and is thought to have been the author of the Molineaux map. It will be observed that of this list of thirty-three publications for twenty-five years about one half is of foreign origin. =B.= HAKLUYT’S “WESTERNE PLANTING” AND THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.—The history of this manuscript, so far as known, is as follows:—