CRONE,+Gerald+Roe

CRONE, Gerald Roe (1899-1982) Trinity College, Cambridge; Royal Geographical Society 1923-1966 (CL 1945) He was an outstanding scholar-librarian who made notable contributions to cartographical history and to the history of geographical thought. He was a very active member of the Hakluyt Society; his less specialized and more popular publications included //Maps and their makers: an introduction to the history of cartography// (1933, 5th edition 1978) and //The explorers: an anthology of discovery// (1962).