Our assumption has been that the well-known photo of Bicknell and Pelloux together was taken in the high mountains, maybe in the Mercantour above the Vallée des Merveilles and Casterino. Not a bit of it; the gentlemen are taking an afternoon stroll and are low in the heat of the Italian Riviera, just a couple […]
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We are pleased to be able to publish this interesting paper by my cousin Ian Fraser. David Roberts was his great great great great grandfather ands his daughter Christine (1821-1872) married Henry Sanford Bicknell (1818-1880) who like his father Ehanan loved collecting art. Ian recovered Roberts’ lost journal of 1851-1860 from among his father’s papers
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Luca Barale writes “I have also find out that Clarence sent a collection of Pliocene fossils collected in the Bordighera neighbourhood to Federico Sacco, geologist and palaeontologist based in Torino, who studied them and published them in the huge, 30-volumes work “I Molluschi dei Terreni Terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria”. Sacco also dedicated a
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NEWS – Edward Berry conference, Bordighera, 1 June 2013 Just back from the conference about my great grand unce Edward Elhanan Berry (1861-1931) and his wife Margaret in the Museo Clarence Bicknell, presided by Professor Dott. Daniela Gandolfi. I presented some original research on the Berrys drawn from family papers which I have, including the
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NEWS – Edward Berry conference, Bordighera, 1 June 2013 Welcome The Man Biography MARVELS – index of the book Chronology Writing Bordighera Casterino The Church Bibliography Botanist Artist Casa Fontanalba Arts and Crafts Painting & drawing Collecting Archaeologist Archaeology Les Merveilles Appreciation Esperantist Esperanto Hymns Poems Documents News & views Association 2018 Centenary Books Events
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