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ON April 27 the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of its foundation by a field meeting at Rabymere, Cheshire, where its first meeting was held in 1860. The Club has been responsible for three floras of Liverpool, one the work of Mr. Robert Brown, who also wrote the botanical section to the British Association Liverpool Handbook, and the last two the works of Col. C. T. Green. Founded by the Rev. H. H. Higgins (president 1862–93) and Dr. Joseph Dickinson (president 1860–62) the Club has maintained an active and amiable co-operation between professional scientific workers and amateurs in all branches of field natural history, and at present has referees in botany (W. S. Laverock), micro-fungi (Dr. C. T. Green), aquaria (Fred Jefferies), lepidoptera (Mrs. Makinson) and ornithology (Eric Hardy), the ornithological section having plans to form a local bird observatory or ringing station like that at Heligoland, as a mark of the anniversary. Some of the leading members in the Club's history were: Rev. H. H. Higgins, who discovered 200 additions to the local flora in four years, and was author of works on the fungi, Diptera, flora and other subjects of the Liverpool district, and particularly the notable collection of fern fossils he discovered at Ravenhead, Lancashire; G. H. Morton (president 1894), who delivered an address to the Club on the geology of Liverpool which the council published and which was later enlarged into his celebrated “Geology of Liverpool”; Col. J. W. Ellis (president 1899 and 1910) and Prof. Robert Newstead (president 1907–8), entomologists; and Dr. Joseph Dickinson, author of the second “Flora of Liverpool”. Since its foundation, the Club has not failed to issue an annual proceedings of 40?50 pages, and at one time its members issued their own monthly journal, the Liverpool Naturalists” Scrap Book, followed by the Liverpool Naturalists' Journal. The honorary secretary is Mrs. W. S. Laverock, Millbank, Mill Lane, Wallasey.
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Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club. Nature 135, 612 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135612c0
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