Dear Mr Billington, and fellow HOGG members,
just to clear up a few things about George Highfield Morton (1826-1900). He was never an employee of University College, Liverpool which later became the University of Liverpool. He was also not a Professor indeed, Morton had few if any formal qualifications and the only education he did receive was at a local institution named "Paddington Academy", before later enrollment at the Mechanics Institution is Slater Street, afterwards known as Liverpool Institute when it moved to Mount Street. Paddington Academy may have been a "Dame School". He was otherwise largely self-taught in Geology through membership of various, often short-lived, natural history societies.
After his death in 1900, much of Morton's collection was obtained by the British Museum (Natural History). The remainder was sold to University College Liverpool for £200 and consisted of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Oolite fossils and the collections of rocks and minerals. There were five oak cabinets and a catalogue, presumed lost. There was also a set of Sopwith's Geological Models and a set of Larkin's Crystallographic Glass Models.
regards,
Tony Morgan,
World Museum,
Liverpool.
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