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Edmund Higgins was a prominent 19th-century British natural history dealer, entomologist, and naturalist who actively bridged the worlds of field collecting and academic science. While he is primarily recognized in historical literature as a specimen dealer rather than a formal academic paleontologist, his business was vital for supplying museums with geological, paleontological, and zoological specimens.