- Higgins, Vera,
Higgins, Vera, 1892-1968 (Personal Name)
- Cockburn, Vera, 1892-1968
The naming of plants, 1937: t.p. (Vera Higgins)
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Cactus and succulent journal of Great Britain, v. 31, no. 1, 1969 : page 1 (Mrs. Vera Higgins, V.M.H. ; translator from German; resident at Croydon; recent death)
Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturalists, 1994: page 340 (Higgins, Vera (née Cockburn); born Jan. 1892; died 17 Oct. 1968; MA from Cambridge; Fellow of the Linnean Society 1945; awarded Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour in 1946; Scientific officer, National Physical Laboratory; authority on succulent plants and Crassulaceae in particular)
National Cactus & Succulent Journal, Vol. 23, 1968: page 81 (Mrs. Vera Higgins, died on 17th October [1968] at the age of 76; president of the British Cactus and Succulent Society from 1949 to 1962; prolific writer on cacti and succulent plants; translator of German works on the subject)