L.S.Berg (1876-1950)

L.S.Berg browsing in the Tin Drum Bookstore in Leicester [no - that's just wishful thinking]. L.S.Berg browsing in the stacks of the Library of the Zoological Institute in Leningrad [maybe].

L.S.Berg was born in 1876 so 2016 is the 140th anniversary of his birth- in Bendery(which is now in Transnistria or perhaps Moldova). His theory of loess formation was published in 1916 ; we have a convenient centenary: 100 years of Loessification.