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1998 -- AGS Archives   "Environmental History" issue of the Geographical Review.    "J.B. Jackson and Geography" issue of the Geographical Review.   Read Dr. Jerry Dobson's article in GeoWorld  magazine on how the American Geographical Society Serves Geography and GIS.    At the 1998 Awards Ceremony and Banquet in Milwaukee, the Society's most prestigious medals were presented. Award recipients include:  Professor Arthur H. Robinson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who literally "wrote the book" on modern cartography and geodesy;   Academician Chen Shupeng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who pioneered and championed automated cartography, remote sensing and GIS in China;   Professor Robert C. West of Louisiana State University, a renowned regional geographer specializing in Latin America; and Science writer Dava Sobel, author of Longitude (1995), an in-depth history of the quest for longitude, which has sold over 2 million copies in 17 languages. Discovery of the 1,000th pulsar in our galaxy was announced on November 13, 1998, in a press release by the Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester. Astronomers used the 64-meter Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, on which a "multibeam" receiver was installed on the telescope in early 1997.