Occasional Notes. 
1R. 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 de- 
termined to procure and place in the Museum of Econo- 
mic Botany, which is a most valuable addition to the gar- 
dens wholly due to the exertions of Dr. SCHOMBURGK, a 
portrait of the esteemed and honoured curator. The paint- 
ing has since been executed by Mr. L. E. TANNEST, the 
master of the School of Art. It was formally presented to the 
Board of Governors of the Gardens on the 30th of January 
last by Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, Governor of South Aus- 
tralia, in the presence of Dr. SCHOMBURGK and a large 
company of his well-wishers. With characteristic mod- 
esty, he whom that ceremony was meant to honour, in 
expressing his thanks, dwelt chiefly on the merits of his 
