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Henry Hugh Higgins (1814–1893) was an English botanist, bryologist, geologist, curator and clergyman. He is cited as an authority in scientific classification, as Higgins. He was inspector of the National Schools in Liverpool from 1842 to 1848 and chaplain to the Rainhill Asylum, also in Liverpool.〔(Darwin Correspondence Project » Henry Hugh Higgins, 1814–93 )〕 He was also president of the Liverpool Field Naturalists' Club from 1861 to 1881. He especially worked on the Ravenhead collections, almost wholly made up of Upper Carboniferous flora, fish, bivalves and insect remains. Higgins had suggested that Ravenhead donate his collections to the Liverpool Museum and the donation gained a home with the construction of the railway in 1870, which exposed two Carboniferous seams known as the Upper and Lower Ravenhead. Most of Liverpool Museum's collections survived the Liverpool Blitz of May 1941 which practically destroyed the Museum itself, but the entire Ravenhead collection was lost in the fire.〔(Palaeobotanical studies and collecting in the 19th century, with particular reference to the Ravenhead collection and Henry Hugh Higgins )〕 == Selected publications == * 1882. ''The Turvey ammonite: a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, October 16, 1882''. 8 pp. * 1890. ''What is religion?. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Higgins (botanist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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