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THE OVERLOOKED AND COLOURFUL CAREER OF R. D. GRAY
By Peter Domankiewicz 

In the January of 1894, Frederic Ives was in the midst of a long sojourn in the UK, lapping up the acclaim for his colour system at one learned society after another, when he had a nasty shock. Back in New York, somebody else was projecting photographs in colour, and reports in both American and British publications said they were better than his. Ives’ wrath was immediately focused on his rival, one R. D. Gray, and he lambasted him in print.

Publishing Roundtable!
Meet journal editors from Mainsheet, Coastal Studies & Society, The Northern Mariner,  and Animal History and ask them anything about submitting your article

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Oceans Book Club! We're reading Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea (2022).
Grab the book, give it a read, and join us for a discussion led by Alison Glassie (Northeastern University).

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Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc