Show BURGK sir robert henry burek has been dead twenty one years but his name goes marching on and ia in many moi e peoples months than at any period during his lifetime he was born at freiburg saxony june 5 1804 at an birly age he was drawn to tha study of geography and natural history but on coming to the united states for a time tie attempted to succeed as a tobacconist in virginia failing in this he went in 1830 to Ane gada where the governor advised him to survey the island this he did and laid the report before the royal geographical society in london adega da is an english island of the group of the lesser antilles having only 13 square miles and inhabitants many ships have been wrecked on ewh which stretch from its shore the society was so well pleased with alio report that they appointed him to survey british guiana this was in 1832 and surmounting with difficulty obstacles he sent back the results of his work to bo published in tha journal of the geographical eo ciet on one of his excursions into the interior he ascended the berbich river and there aw on january 1 1807 the victoria regla when chom burgk returned to england in 1839 ho received the medal of the geographical society for his book which dealt with almost every branch of natural science but it was called travels and researches in british guiana he went back to guiana in 1840 by command of the british government to complete the eur vey of the country and to lay out the lino between guiana and brazil this he did so satisfactorily that he received the honor of knighthood botanists and indeed the world are indebted to him for hia account of venezuela oi chida one variety of which was named tor him after publishing in 1847 an excellent excel leat history of barbadoes burek was bent to san domingo as british consul and representative where he punted his geographical and scientific researches and contributed many reports to the london society until in 1857 he went as british to the siamese court where he was taken ill in 1864 and went back to england dying the next year until now he haa been chiefly known as a traveler and authority on natural fic iene to day hia principal fame rests on his boundary line |