Obituary-—The Rev. Henry Hugh Higgins, M_A. 083 
stantly attended its meetings, and it had been arranged that he and 
Mr. Paden, the acting curator at the William Brown Museum, 
should proceed to London on the 8rd July to attend a meeting of 
the Association there, commencing on Monday evening. This 
journey was agreed upon no later than on the 1st July, when, after 
listening to Mr. Best’s organ recital, Mr. Higgins crossed over to 
the Museum, as was his usual custom almost daily. 
The officials and employés at the Museum and Free Library re- 
ceived the news of his death with profound regret. Not being a 
member of the City Council, he could not be elected chairman of the 
Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, but some years ago he was 
appointed Chairman of the Sub-Committee of the Museum and Mayer 
Collection, and continued in that office till the last. Jt is almost 
needless to say that his literary attainments were of a high order, 
and that he was one of the most valued members of the Library 
Committee when books new or old came to be selected. 
Mr. Higgins, who was in his eightieth year, had been in his 
usual health on Sunday, 2nd July, and proceeded to his library, as 
was his wont, in the evening, where his retirement was not broken, 
and was permitted to remain undisturbed for some time, but on 
his study being entered about nine o’clock Mr. Higgins was found 
by one of his sons sitting at his writing-desk, surrounded as usual 
with his books and papers, but quite dead. The circumstances of 
his death seemed, one would think, an appropriate close to a life 
the remarkable industry and activity of which has aided so largely 
in the advance of scientific progress and educational culture and 
has left no time for idleness. It was known to the family that 
he had intended to proceed on Monday, 3rd July, to London, to 
attend the Meeting of the Museums’ Association, at which he had 
undertaken to read a paper entitled “On a Public Museum Series of 
Minerals arranged in aid of Technical Hducation.” The manuscript 
found on his writing-desk immediately in front of him showed that 
he had been busily engaged on that very work. Several folios of 
it had been written, and its sudden stoppage in the middle of a word 
indicated that the attack had proved at once fatal. 
With the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool Mr. 
Higgins had been connected for forty-six years, and he had twice 
filled office as its President. 
Mr. Higgins was also intimately identified with the Naturalist’s 
Field-club, another society connected with the Royal Institution, 
and: he had been its President for many years, and a constant 
attendant at the field meetings. He was also identified with the 
Microscopical, and other scientific societies held in Liverpool. 
On the death, in 1888, of his brother, Charles Longuet Higgins, 
of Turvey Abbey (the ‘Good Layman” in Dean Burgon’s “ Lives 
of Twelve Good Men”), Mr. Higgins succeeded to the manor of 
Turvey and the family estates in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. 
Although he will be long remembered and much missed in 
connection with the societies already named, the work which he 
accomplished in connection with the Free Library and Museum, on 
