Captain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards Press Ups Studies of insects observed in

Studies of insects observed in Spain

View of Charlton House

An English extract of the letter was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

A group of street urchins laugh and point at her

dressed for Scotland

Captain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards Press Ups Studies of insects observed inCaptain Frederick Burnaby, officer in the Royal Horse Guards, 1877. A traveller and adventurer, Burnaby became famous when he published A Ride to Khiva, an account of his travels in central Asia undertaken in 1875 1876. He was killed in action at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan in 1885. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law,