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Conway is mostly remembered for his recreational activities. He collected and studied plants, birds, and shells. He was a capable artist, a sculptor, and he decorated vessels, examples of which were exhibited at the Fine Art
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Charles Conway (1797â1860) had been a botanist and lepidopterist who also had a large collection of fossils and a meteorological station at Pontnewydd (and Monmouth); his nephew, Charles Conway (fl.1870), was also an artist, engraver, and botanist. Items
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178:"Sketches of the Natural History of My Neighbourhood"
122:"CONWAY, CHARLES (1820 - 1884), painter and engraver"
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