Wendy Simkiss

Assistant Curator (Earth Sciences)

Collections responsible for:

Rocks, Minerals, Fossils.

On our site:

Palaeontology, Rocks, Minerals, Clore Natural History Centre 

Specialist interests:

Northern England minerals, care and conservation of geological collections, Palaeozoic fossils, history of science (particularly local and palaeobotanical), Triassic plants and palaeoenvironments, herbivorous dinosaurs and Mesozoic plants, upper Carboniferous palaeoenvionments, geomorphology and mineralisation processes.

Recent  key publications:

Henry Hugh Higgins and Frederick Price Marrat: the reluctant palaeobotanists and the Ravenhead collections - Alan J. Bowden & Wendy Simkiss in Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 114, 327-338.

Palaeobotanical studies and collecting in the 19th century, with particular reference to the Ravenhead collection and Henry Hugh Higgins - W. Simkiss & A.J. Bowden in Bowden, A.J., Burek, C.V. & Wilding, R. (eds) 2005. History of Palaeobotany: Selected Essays. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 241, 111-126.

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Postal Address:

World Museum
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EN
England

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