International Molinology

Bulletin of The International Molinological Society

No. 61, December 2000 / summary - résumé

Editorial
by Michael Harverson

Tribute to Yolt
by Ton Meesters

Fig: Yolt thanking G. Dahl at Bovik for his help with the visit to the Aland islands during the Mid-term Excursion in July 1995.

An Appreciation of Herman A. Webster 1878-1970
by Ken Major

Born in New York and settled in Paris by the beginning of the twentieth century, a student of Mucha and of Jean-Paul Laurens, Herman Webster was an American painter who left a considerable body of work, composed mainly of landscape views of Italy, Spain and the French countryside, where a windmill is often to be seen.      Front cover (top on this page): Moulin de la Croix-Cadeau at Avrillé (Maine-et-Loire), painted by Herman Webster in 1936. Probably reproduced in "L'Illustration" pre 1939.      Back cover (left on this page): Two Breton mills, painted by Herman Webster in 1936: Moulin de Clone at Guerno (Morbihan) and Moulin de la Paclais (Loire-Inférieure). From same article as front cover illustration.

Original Papers

1. E.G. Marin - A Forgotten Molinologist
   by Niall Roberts
       One of the rewards of serving as a voluntary guide in a mill is the opportunity for meeting other people who already know quite a lot (and occasionally a great deal) about mills or who know of somebody else who does. In 1999 at Wimbledon Windmill Museum, I was introduced to the Marin Collection of windmill illustrations and related textual material by a visitor who was Executor for the late Eugène Gaspard Marin (1883-1969). According to a short biographical note that I have since read (by my informant, Mrs. H.M. Gustin), Marin was an anthropologist and a gentleman of independent means who travelled widely during the period 1928-1938 through Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He believed that what he called Cultural Anthropology should be approached in the same way as the Natural Sciences and he set out to devise a system of classification that could be applied to all branches of the subject and thereby make subsequent analysis and study more illuminating. He concentrated his information on measurements of time, sundials and windmills. In 1980 his Executor donated his archive of material to the Science Museum Library and to the library of the Museum of Mankind (part of the British Museum's Department of Ethnography.
       The author visited both, in order to see what Marin collected on the subject of windmills.
   
   16 pages / illustrated with original papers.
   
   
2. The Tanbark Mills of Chios (Greece)
   Nineteenth-century Windmills Used Solely for the Grinding of Tanning Agents
   by Dora Monioudi-Gavala
   (Translated by Michael Harverson)

        Description by travellers and official documents have referred to the existence of windmills on the shore of Chios town, north of the castle, for at least the last four hundred years. "From the end of the moat to the tanyards the shore was called Upper Beach. It was adorned with lines of white-sailed windmills, almost equal in number to the windmills at the lower end of the harbour. These mills have always been regarded by travellers as the main feature of the town," wrote G. Zolutas in the early twentieth century.

   The mills of the Tanners' district that survive today were built in the nineteenth century. The raw material they ground was destined for the tanyards. The many other windmills that existed on the island ground grain. During the nineteenth century Chios became an important centre for the industrial production of flour, soap and tanned leather for the whole Eastern Mediterranean region.	Fig.2
   Fig. 2   The four mills at the harbour, seen some years ago, in a derelict state. Fig. 3   The mills after the recent restoration.   2 pages and pictures	Fig.3

    

3. Experiments with the Reefing of Windmill Sails According to an Old British Patent
   by John Jensen & Lise Andersen
      3 pages and pictures of the experiment

   Communications

4. Callington Mill, Oatlands, Tasmania
   by Fred Atkins & Pleun Hitzert
   
5. Windmills on Stamps
   by Fred Atkins
   
6. A Recently-Discovered Painting of an Oil Mill
   by J. Kenneth Major
   
7. Tidemills in Iceland
   by Walter Minchinton
   
8. The First Windmill of Württemberg (Germany)
   by Ton Meesters
   
9. Windmills at Alexandria
   
10. other subjects
    * Book Reviews
    * General Meeting at Stratford Hall / 22nd Sept. 2000
    * Pre-Symposium Wind Engine Tour (12-16 Sept. 2000)
    * TIMS-Portugal Conference
    * Spanish Mill Conference
    * Restoration of a German Windmill (Eilers Windmill at Sinningen)
    * other enclosures: Current TIMS Address List / A notice of the rate of subscription.
    
11. TIMS Dictionary of Molinology
    A Work Report and a Call for Help
    by Berthold Moog
    Author's address:
    Berthold Moog
    Bollwerkstrasse 74
    CH-4102 Binningen (Switzerland)
    

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    ISSN 1024-4522
    This summary of the 61st Bulletin of The International Molinological Society
    has been prepared be Gerald Bost, Berlin -January 2001.
    The complete printed version can be ordered from TIMS Publication Officer:
    Leo van der Drift
    Groothertoginnelaan 174 b/c
    NL-2517 EV Den Haag
    The Netherlands                 
    

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