I*he ScHuMbLKoka in Guiana. i i 



RICHARDSON & Co., advertising the first as being on 

 sale on the 14th of July. 



At the Anniversary Meeting of the Geographical 

 Society held on the 25th of May 1840, one of the gold 

 medals was presented to Schomburgk with the following 

 complimentary address : — 



" Mr. SCHOMBURGK,— By favour of Her Majesty the 

 Queen of these Realms, the Royal Geographical Society 

 is authorised to apply the medal now before me to the 

 encouragement of geographical science and discovery, 

 and it is in the conscientious discharge of the duty which 

 has thus devolved upon them, that the Society has 

 determined to place in your hands this honourable testi- 

 mony of their approbation and esteem. Sir, — In the 

 arduous journey in which you were engaged during a 

 period of five years, you faithfully complied with the 

 instructions, and more than fulfilled the expectations of 

 your employers. Guided in the first instance, by the 

 footsteps of your illustrious countryman Baron HUM- 

 BOLDT you afterwards visited a country in which no one 

 had preceded you. A problem which he began to solve 

 you have brought to its conclusion, and by your joint 

 observations we have now astronomically determined a 

 connected series of fixed points along a line extending 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Nor is it in this respect 

 only that we recognise in you the qualities of your great 

 predecessor ; like him, you are distinguished by the 

 variety of your talents, and the extensive range of your 

 studies. The zoologist gladly recognises in you the 

 discoverer and describer of several species of birds and 

 fishes, — the botanist of many plants before unknown to 

 naturalists. An account of your geographical observa- 



B - 



