Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1896-1896
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Professor Macvane gave his second lecture on the Guiana Boundary Question last evening in the Fogg Museum. He began by outlining the various claims made by the Spanish and Dutch, and their successors, the Venezuelan Republic and the British, showing that the early Spanish claims had been much overdrawn, as shown by the actual Dutch occupations. He then examined the investigations of these claims made since 1841, and the various dividing lines proposed. The famous Schomburgk line was surveyed merely for a basis of negotiations and was not considered as final. The records seem to show that for the most...
Professor Macvane will give the second lecture in the series on the Guiana Boundary Question tonight at 7.45 o'clock in the Fogg Museum. The lecture will be open to the public...
Lecture. The Guiana Boundary Question. II. Professor Macvane. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Lecture. The Guiana Boundary Question. II. Professor Macvane. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...maps of South America, said the speaker, are some of them relevant to the subject in hand; others are irrelevant. Of the former there are four classes. The first class sets the boundary of Guiana at the Essequibo River; the others vary largely in their conclusions. Of the set which places the boundary at the Essequibo we have five maps-an American atlas (1796), a Paris map (1781), a London atlas, published the year of the cession of Guiana to England, a French geographer's map (1803), and a Caracas map of obscure and doubtful origin...