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6 unusual facts about James Edward Alexander


1838 in birding and ornithology

James Edward Alexander publishes Expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa : Through the Hitherto Undescribed Countries of the Great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras, Performed under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Geographic Society.

Arg of Karim Khan

James Edward Alexander in 1827 described the citadel as being surrounded by a "deep wet ditch".

James Edward Alexander

He was the son-in-law of Charles Collier Michell, having married in Cape Town on 25 October 1837 his daughter Eveline Marie, born 16 April 1821.

Notre-Dame Street

In her book British Regulars in Montreal, Elinor Senior describes the cortege as follows: "All shops were closed from half-past ten in the morning until one o'clock. Sir James Edward Alexander estimated that 10,000 lined the street as minute guns sounded from Saint Helen's Island to mark the movement of the cortege to the military burying ground on Victoria Road (now Rue Papineau)".

Warmbad, Namibia

Scientist Sir James Edward Alexander lived in one of its rooms during his stay in 1836.

White-tailed Shrike

This curious bird, which some consider to have close affinities with the batises and others the bushshrikes, was discovered in 1837 by James Edward Alexander in the Naukluft Mountains of Namibia.



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