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...