Dear ExLibrans:
I have recently received an inquiry regarding the existance
and location of archival materials - reports, accounts, papers,
articles, maps, drawings, paintings, photographs, and movie
film - pertaining to the Tepuis mountians of Venezuela and
Mount Roraima, which spans the borders of Venezuela,
Guyana, and Brazil.
The inquiry comes from
Adrian Warren, FRGS
Last Refuge, ltd.
Batch Farm, Panborough, nr. Wells
Somerset, BA5 1PN, England
< adrianwarren@lastrefuge.co.uk >
I presume his inquiry may have reached other ExLibris
participants, though I can't recall having seen reference to
it in recent prodeedings.
If you can assist, you may contact Mr. Warren directly, or
reply to me and I will forward the information.
Alan Shalette, Director
Clark Field Archive & Library
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
University of New Mexico
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Quoting from the inquiry, key names among explorers in the
area include:
Robert Schomburgk (in Roraima area in 1838), a Prussian
Naturalist who, between 1835 and 1843, worked on behalf
of the British Government to map the frontier between British
Guiana (now Guyana) and Venezuela. He had a brother,
Richard Schomburgk.
Karl Ferdinand Appun (1864), a German Botanist.
Charles Barrington-Brown (1869), a Geologist.
Flint and Edgington (1877), worked and lived in British Guiana.
McTurk and Boddam Wetham (1878), worked and lived in British
Guiana.
Hemy Whitely (1879-1884), an ornithologist. Wrote detailed
account in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society.
Everard Im Thurn and Hariy Perkins (1884), Assistant Crown
Surveyors working in British Guiana, undertook expedition sponsored
by the Royal Geographical society, the Royal Society and the British
Association to try to climb Roraima. They succeeded and wrote
detailed accounts in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society.
Siedel (1884), a German orchid collector.
McConnell and Quelch (1894-98), made zoological and botanical
collections. Many of their specimens are held in the British Museum
of Natural History.
Koch-Grunberg (1911), a German Anthropologist who worked
extensively in the Gran Sabana of Venezuela and wrote three
impressive volumes on his work, including photographs. There may
possibly be further, untapped photographic (and movie?) material
hiding in some Museum (perhaps an Anthropological Institute in
Germany?)
Henry Edward Crampton (1911).
Cecil Clementi (1915-1916).
G.H.H. Tate (1927), led an expedition from the American Museum
of Natural History.
William Phelps (1938), an American ornithologist
Paul Zahl (1938).
P.B.H. Bailey (1958), undertook survey of the northern side of
Roraima for the British Guiana Government Geological Survey
Department.
Others: Sir Joseph Hooker, an eminent British botanist, during the
latter part of the nineteenth century.
General Rondon, a Brazilian explorer.
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