384 Obituary—The Rev. Henry Hugh Higgins, M.A. 
the committee of which he was a member for about thirty-three 
years, will probably in future years be regarded as the chief 
monument to his memory. His labours in reference to the Museum 
commenced really about seven years before he became a member of 
the committee, in November, 1859, as a representative of the Derby 
Trustees, his scientific knowledge, of which the late Sir James 
Picton had a very high opinion, pointing him out as probably the 
best-equipped gentleman in Liverpool to assist by his advice in 
extending the scope of the Institution, which was then at its 
commencement, and which has since become so famous. His labour 
in the Liverpool Museum for the past forty years may therefore be 
truly described as a labour of love. In the classification and arrange- 
ment of the specimens he took an active part in conjunction with the 
chief curator, the late Mr. T. J. Moore, the two officials making a 
general division of the work, Mr. Moore attending chiefly to the verte- 
brates, and Mr. Higgins to the invertebrates, each rendering the 
other the most ready assistance, and working in perfect harmony to 
the last, Mr. Moore having passed away only a few months ago. 
With an eye to the practical as well as the strictly scientific uses of 
the Museum, Mr. Higgins conceived the idea of exhibiting the 
specimens in so simple a manner that people of ordinary education 
could appreciate them, and to that end he compiled the well-known 
little book entitled ‘Museum Talk about Animals which have no 
Bones,” and which was intended and has been extensively used as a 
«« Visitors’ Companion” to the Museum. That the pamphlet has 
become popular may be gathered from the fact that 36,000 copies 
have been issued in six editions. 
Rarely could anyone retain, as Mr. Higgins did, for nearly eighty 
years, that earnest craving for increased scientific knowledge, 
combined with a child-like simplicity and sweetness of disposition 
which endeared him to his friends and attracted all young people to 
him from far and wide. 
He was a keen musician, and his love of harmony pervaded all 
his scientific pursuits, and added a charm to his home-life, and to 
the wider circle of those who knew and appreciated him for his 
many personal merits, as well as for his devotion to the public service. 
Hreata: Gronocicat Magazine, Jury, 1893. 
Readers are requested to make the following corrections in Prof. Y. Ball’s article 
on ‘ Barren Island.’’ 
p. 290. Note 1., for Riyticiros, read Rhyticeros. 
p- 291. line 10, for ‘‘ Prince,’’ read ‘‘ Prine.” 
In re ‘‘ New Classifications of the Brachiopoda,’’ GzonocicaL Magazine, July, 
p. 318, third line from bottom, for Neotremata, read Protremata. 
The Zelotremata originated from the pentameroids of the Protremata, as is cor- 
rectly indicated by Mr. Schuchert on his Table V. and p. 145, “ American Geologist,” 
vol. xi. No. 3, while on a subsequent page (147) he states ‘“‘ The Telotremata had 
their origin in the Neotremata’’! ‘The first statements are correct, but the fact is 
the ordinal characters converge the farther we go back in geological times, and what 
better proof can we have of the evolution of the Brachiopoda ? “Mr. Chas. Schuchert 
is now attached to the National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
AGNES CRANE. 
On p. 3836, line 6 from bottom, for ‘‘ Gygomatic,”’ read ‘‘ Zygomatic.”’ 
