October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 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 […]
September 10, 2021November 9, 2024 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 […]
September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 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 […]
August 31, 2021November 11, 2024 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 […]
August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 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; […]
June 29, 2021July 18, 2021 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 […]
June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 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 […]
June 18, 2021November 9, 2024 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 […]
June 17, 2021June 18, 2021 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 […]
June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 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 […]