Andrew Leith Adams

Andrew Leith Adams ( born March 21, 1827 in Bellfield, Banchory, Kincardineshire, Scotland, † July 29, 1882 in Queenstown, now Cobh, County Cork, Ireland) was a Scottish physician, naturalist and geologist.

Life and work

Adams was the second son of Francis Adams (1796-1861), of a practice in Banchory operating as a doctor and was known as a translator of Greek medical works of Hippocrates.

Andrew Leith Adams studied medicine. From 1848 to 1873 he worked as a surgeon in the Army Medical Department in the military operates. In 1861 he was Surgeon Major. During his missions abroad, he used the opportunities of natural history in India, Kashmir, Egypt, Malta, Gibraltar and Canada to investigate. His observations on fossil vertebrates of the islands of Malta led him to studies of fossil elephants, a field in which he became a recognized authority.

Adams left the military in 1873. He became in 1873 Professor of Zoology at Trinity College Dublin and in 1878 professor of natural history at Queen's College Cork (now University College Cork). Latter post he held until shortly before his death.

Honors

Adams was in 1870 a member of the Royal Geographical Society, 1872, he was accepted as a member ( "Fellow" ) in the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Writings

Adams wrote in addition to scientific contributions to professional journals and travel books, the most famous of Notes of a naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta. Here is a selection of his articles and books:

  • Notes on the habits, haunts, etc. of some of the birds of India. In: Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 26, 1859, pp. 466-512.
  • The birds of Cashmere and Ladakh. In: Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 27, 1859, pp. 169-190.
  • Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta. Edinburgh 1870 (195 pages).
  • On the dentition and osteology of the Maltese fossil elephant, being a description of the remains Discovered by the author in Malta in between the years 1860 and 1866, In: . Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond .. 9, 1874, pp. 1-124.
  • On a fossil saurian vertebra, Arctosaurus osborni from the Arctic region. In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 2, 1875, pp. 177-179.
  • Monograph on the British Fossil Elephants. In: Palaeontographical Soc .. London from 1877 to 1881.

Swell

  • Physician (19th century)
  • Naturalist
  • Geologist ( 19th century)
  • University teachers (Dublin)
  • Briton
  • Scotsman
  • Born in 1827
  • Died in 1882
  • Man
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