(Daily Chronicle April 8th 1972).
A comprehensive collection of Guyana’s rarest herbs and butterflies adorned the exhibition hall of the City Library of Winchester England last month.
The display which was described by the Hampshire Chronicle as an exhibition “of unusual interest” was staged by the Cambridge Expedition which spent June to September 1971 at Baramita North West District.
The six young Cambridge graduates who comprised the expedition to Guyana collected among other things specimens of plants used medicinally by the Caribs of the area and of butterflies , moths and beetles.
Over 100 different plants were collected some of which were left on exhibition in Georgetown.
“Of the butterflies found, at least one was so rare it was not represented in the British Museum Collection,” the Cambridge newspaper reported.
The collection also included 30 items of Amerindian craftwork and some 70 photographs.
