Series 15: Robert H. Schomburgk, 1956

The series is based on a visit by Bassett Maguire to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1956. There he photographed material that concerned the flora of British Guiana, including the letters and notes of Robert H. Schomburgk (1804-1865), copies of which are included in this series.

Robert Schomburgk was a renown explorer and naturalist who surveyed the boundary of British Guiana that came to be known as the "Schomburgk Line" (1841-1895). After Dr. Maguire's death, Mrs. Maguire donated, in her and her husband's name, a very rare edition of Schomburgk's Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana.