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    Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 – 11 March 1865) was a Holy Roman Empire-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological...
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    naturalist Robert Hermann Schomburgk to survey British Guiana's boundaries. This survey resulted in what came to be known as the "Schomburgk Line", which...
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  • Schomburgk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865), German-born explorer for Great Britain in the...
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    line was named after German-born English explorer and naturalist Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865). The dispute arose because when the United Kingdom...
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    1840, the British Government assigned the German-born explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk to survey and mark out the western boundary of British Guiana...
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    there is such a place, and others deny it." In 1840 explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk visited Pirara on the shores of Lake Amucu. He stated that the...
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    daughter Hermine Rosalie Schomburgk (1861– ) married John Herbert Evans on 8 April 1891. His older brother, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 – 11 March...
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    Roraima took place in 1838, when German scientist and explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk observed it during a Royal Geographical Society-funded expedition...
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    Essequibo, and the British, who appointed Robert Hermann Schomburgk to define the western boundary in 1835. His "Schomburgk line" established the boundary and...
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    Geographical Society, the German-born explorer and naturalist Robert Hermann Schomburgk conducted botanical and geographical exploration of British Guiana...
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    climb was made in 1851 by a German who was British consul: Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk. He named the mountain "Monte Tina" and estimated its height at...
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    Utricularia humboldtii (category Taxa named by Robert Hermann Schomburgk)
    and Venezuela. It was originally published and described by Robert Hermann Schomburgk in 1840. It is usually found growing in the water-filled leaf...
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    tracheostomy. Waterton is also credited with bringing curare to Europe. Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who was a trained botanist, identified the vine as one of the...
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    bowstrings." Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk; Sir William Jardine; Andrew Crichton (1841). The Natural History...
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    Wedge-capped capuchin (category Taxa named by Robert Hermann Schomburgk)
    Cebidae Genus: Cebus Species: C. olivaceus Binomial name Cebus olivaceus Schomburgk, 1848 Geographic range (includes C. castaneus and C. brunneus) Synonyms...
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    Treaty granting extraterritorial rights to Britain in 1855. Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk, British Consul-General from 1859 to 1864, gives an account of...
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    Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society the German researcher Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-1865) investigated the river Essequibo and followed its...
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    in 1750. In 1852, the German-British explorer and consul Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk mentioned the existence of a farm in the valley of Constanza on...
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  • Gongylolepis (category Taxa named by Robert Hermann Schomburgk)
    yapacana Maguire Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Schomburgk, Robert Hermann. 1847. Linnaea 20: 759-760 in Latin Tropicos, Gongylolepis R.H...
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    Petilipinnis (category Taxa named by Robert Hermann Schomburgk)
    Casatti, 2002 Species: P. grunniens Binomial name Petilipinnis grunniens (Jardine & Schomburgk, 1843) Synonyms Corvina grunniens Jardine & Schomburgk, 1843...
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  • Amerindian name meaning 'river of death' and more specifically, Robert Hermann Schomburgk said the name is a corruption of the Taruma name casi-kityu meaning...
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    possibly in Suriname. The fish is named in honor of explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865), who provided notes and illustration to the describer...
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  • German explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk to map British Guiana and mark its boundaries. As ordered by the British authorities, Schomburgk began British...
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    Prussian explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk to explore Guiana's interior. After brief land disputes between Britain and Brazil, Schomburgk claimed the entire...
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    German explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk to map British Guiana and mark its boundaries. As ordered by the British authorities, Schomburgk began British...
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    Mariano Rivero, François de Pons, José Salvany, Auguste Sallé, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Wilhelm Sievers, Carl Ferdinand Appun, Gustav Karsten, Adolf...
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  • Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1848). The History of Barbados: Comprising a Geographical and...
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    George Bentham named in 1840 based on a specimen collected by Robert Hermann Schomburgk. This remained the only known species until Henry Allan Gleason...
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    falls. In 1836, Robert Hermann Schomburgk was the first person to venture beyond the falls. Wonotobo is a Kalina word. According to Schomburgk, the full name...
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    other seminaries in the region. In History of Barbados its author Robert Hermann Schomburgk gives an early account of Codrington College on pages 111–123...
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