The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-07

tons A thorough Teuton, and in un
| interrupted contact with the savants o
| Germany, he returned to the Father
land to be buried in German soil.
He became first known by his '-Trav
| els in Guiana and ON the Orinoco, 1885
1885," reports sent TO the Geographic
| Society of London, which were edftes
( in German by his brother Otto. In 1s4
! appeared his Description Of Britisl
+, Guiana" and Views in the Interior o
| Guiana" in 1877, History of Barba
does" in 1S4S, 1.-The Discovery of Gui
ana by Sir Walter Raleigh" all pub
lished in London.
| Like many other German eplorers o
whom the Faltherfand is deserved,
proud, both Robert and Richard frs
earned public recognition and honor!
in England This used to be the rub
in their time" says Herr Nehrling
land so It is still today. Not only il
the British colonies, but also in Eng
land proper, German savants are in th+
public service and highly honored and
esteemed"
With the Schomburgks he mentions
the well known names Of DR.. MAY
Mueller Of Oxford; Drs. Gadow, Guen-
ther and Seebohm, of the British Muse.
UNI; Professor Sir Dietrich Brands, the
author of India Forest Flora" and the
foundar of the Indian forestry depart.
ment; Baron Ferdinand Won Mueller
director Of the Botanical Garden in
Melbourne, with scores of others.
Sir Robert, of Venezuelan fame, after
receiving an academic education and
influenced by Alexander Won Humboldt
in 1929 landed in the United States
"a
proceed to the West Indies. The results
of his exploration of the island of Ana
cagua, submitted to the Geographical
Society of London, prompted this body
to supply him. in 1894, with money for
exploring British Guiana, where he
travelled until 1899 His discoveries
were made public in the above-mentibn-
ed works, and the Geogra phical Society
of England bestowed upon him the
great gold medal of honor His botan-
ical and geological collections gathered
in the tropics to this day form one of
the grandest treasures of the British
Museum.
After a brief sojourn IN Germany, Sir
Robert Herman Schomburgk was ap-
pointed by the governments president
of the British Guiana boundary COM
mission. Accompanied by his brother
Rlch,aTfd, who travelled at the expense
of King Frederick William w of
Prussia, THE German scholar departed
upon his famous boundary expedition,
which lasted four years and whose in
vestigations We're published in a num-
Der of English and German works and
special reports, one in German, from
the pen of Richard, in three volumes.
Upon his return in 1874, Robert Her
man was knighted by the queen ard
honored by public receptions through
ont scientific and civic bodies of Eng
land. After several years sojourn and
arduous work in England and the con-
tinent, Sir Robert in 1S4S sailed for Sam
Domingo as British consul and envoy.
In the same capacity he served Great
Britain in Bangkok until 1864, when
he state of his health compelled him
10 return ITO Germany, where me died in
1865.
Herr Nehrling informs us that the
Victoria Regia was not, as Is common
V assumed, first discovered by Schorn-
Durgk, but by Haenl1e the German ex-
Jlorer, as early as 1901. It's first scien-
ific description was given by DR.. Ed
ward Poeppig, 1882, in his "Reise in
rhtf, Peru and auf dem Amazonen-
trome," while indeed, Professor Lind
ey fixed its place on ground of the ma
erial collected by Sir Robert and call
d the plant after the queen The Or
hide "Schomburgkia' received its
anne from Sir Richard.