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Alexander Burns Usborne
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Alexander Burns Usborne was born in Kendal, Westmorland, in 1808, the son of Alexander and Margaret Usborne; his father died in 1818 and in his will was described as the purser on HMS Hannibal. His son joined the navy in 1825 aged 16 as a second-class…
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- … L. S. Dawson. 1885. Memoirs of hydrography ... Eastbourne: Henry W. Keay. 2: 122 …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … cross “I was only talking. 45 [66] Lenny 3½ Eastbourne.[67] Papa— Well Lenny how do …
- … of her right hand. [67] The Darwin family stayed in Eastbourne from 14 July to 4 August 1853 …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … investigation. During visits to Hartfield in July and Eastbourne in September and October, he amused …
