Louisa Elizabeth Collings (née Lukis; 4 June 1818 or 1828 – 24 March 1887) was an amateur lichenologist and natural history collector from the Channel Islands.
[1][3] Her parents were first cousins, and her father was a leading Channel Islands naturalist, collector and antiquarian.
[3][4] Due to the early 19th-century views on female education, Collings and her sisters probably did not receive any formal schooling.
[3] Collings swapped her specimens with other collectors, including the family friend, Charles du Bois Larbalestier of Jersey, eventually amassing a collection of over 1,300 lichens held in a set of 32 folders and small box files.
[2][4] In 1887 Collings decided to pay a visit to her eldest daughter, Mary Edmeades, who lay ill in Folkestone.