This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... Occasional Notes. R. SCHOMBURGK.--A well deserved honour has recently been paid in Adelaide, the city of his adoption, to Dr. RICHARD SCHOMBURGK, whom we also, here in Guiana, honour as having been for a brief but eventful time one of our most prominent colonists and one who, by his scientific explorations, made in company with his brother Sir RICHARD, of the then unknown interior of this land, did such excellent service to Guiana. In a previous number of Timehri we have given an autograph letter in which Dr. SCHOMBURGK tells something of what his life has been since that long past day when he left the shores of Guiana, and tells how he is now, and has for many years been, the honoured, Curator of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide. In September last, at a meeting of some of the friends and admirers of Dr. SCHOMBURGK, it was determined to procure and place in the Museum of Economic Botany, which is a most valuable addition to the gardens wholly due to the exertions of Dr. SCHOMBURGK, a portrait of the esteemed and honoured curator. The painting has since been executed by Mr. L. E. TANNEST, the master of the School of Art. Itwasformally presented to the Board of Governors of the Gardens on the 30th of January last by Sir William Robinson, Governor of South Australia, in the presence of Dr. SCHOMBURGK and a large company of his well-wishers. With characteristic modesty, he whom that ceremony was meant to honour, in expressing his thanks, dwelt chiefly on the merits of his predecessor in the curatorship, who planned and designed the gardens so wisely that the after labour has, according to Dr. SCHOMBURGK, been comparatively light. He also dwelt on the fact that the cordial and earnest support of the members of the Board of Governors of the gardens had been of t...