The family Bottacco and Clarence Bicknell
The family Bottacco and Clarence Bicknell – how did they know each other? Rhea Bottacca Sanseverino, her husband Leopoldo Bottacco and their […]
Category: History
The Ancient King, Saxifraga florulenta
The Ancient King, l’Antico Re, was the name used by Clarence Bicknell and other botanists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth […]
Photo of Clarence in 1883 in Finalmarina; what does it tell us?
I received today a copy of an interesting photo of Clarence Bicknell. It was sent by Dr. Andrea De Pascale, PhD, Conservatore […]
L’Homme des Merveilles – Clarence Bicknell
70 years after Clarence Bicknell’s death he was being referred to as L’Homme des Merveilles, the man who discovered the 11,000 rock […]
Astragalus and Burnat in the Book of Guests in Esperanto
Watercolour by Clarence Bicknell of Astragalus monspessulanus (genus Astragalus), native to S. Central & S. Europe to W. Ukraine, NW. Africa. Conservation; […]
The Book of Guests in Esperanto – text published
The Book of Guests in Esperanto by Clarence Bicknell is published today in text form. We provide a transcription of the Esperanto […]
Elhanan Bicknell’s whale oil refinery in London; the site identified.
I am grateful to Mark Howard, whaling history expert who got in touch with us in 2017, for forwarding today a photo […]
Photo research: Alberto Pelloux and Clarence Bicknell
Our assumption has been that the well-known photo of Bicknell and Pelloux together was taken in the high mountains, maybe in the […]
David Roberts and the Royal Academy, by Ian Fraser
We are pleased to be able to publish this interesting paper by my cousin Ian Fraser. David Roberts was his great great […]
Clarence’s collection of Pliocene fossils
Luca Barale writes “I have also find out that Clarence sent a collection of Pliocene fossils collected in the Bordighera neighbourhood to […]