Arthur Adams (zoologist)

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Arthur Adams (* 1820 in Gosport , Hampshire ; † 1878 ) was an English ship's doctor and malacologist .

Adams was the son of an architect, trained at the Royal Naval School and became a ship's doctor in the Royal Navy and was in that capacity on board the HMS Samarang when it explored Indonesia from 1843 to 1846 under the command of Captain Edward Belcher , which he was about Contributed the section on natural history in Belcher's travelogue in London in 1848 ( Adam White wrote the section on crustaceans ). During the Second Opium War he was a ship's doctor for the HMS Actaeon involved in the storming of Canton and received the China War Medal. In 1870 he went as a medical officer on the flagship HMS Royal Adelaideretired in Plymouth. Adams was a very good draftsman (like his grandfather Wheatley, a member of the Royal Academy, and his grandmother, who later became Mrs. Pope, drawing teacher to Queen Caroline).

With his brother Henry Adams he published a three-volume monograph on molluscs from 1853 to 1858 with initial descriptions of many new species (2 volumes of text, one volume with illustrations). It contained a list of all the species and images of all genera known at the time, mostly drawn by Arthur Adams, often when he was still on the Samaranch. The system was also redrawn by the brothers, based on that of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck , Edward Forbes (1815–1854) and John Edward Gray (1800–1875). You worked with Lovell Reeve (1814-1865) together. Most of their subdivision still existed in England at the end of the 19th century.

He contributed to the Thesaurus Conchyliorum of George Brettingham Sowerby I and his son and grandson. Adams and his brother introduced the mussel order Pectinida . The brothers were not only collectors of conchylia, but also traders.

Fonts

  • Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria, London: Hurst and Blackett 1870
  • Notes from a journal of research into the natural history of the countries visited during the voyage of HMS Samarang, in E. Belcher: Narrative of the voyage of HMS Samarang during the years 1843-46, Volume 2, London: Benham and Reeve 1848, Pp. 225-532
  • with Henry Adams: The genera of recent Mollusca: arranged according to their organization , Vol. I, van Voorst, London 1858 Archive
  • with Henry Adams: The genera of recent Mollusca: arranged according to their organization , Vol. II, van Voorst, London 1858 Archive
  • with Henry Adams: The genera of recent Mollusca: arranged according to their organization , Vol. III Plates, van Voorst, London 1858 Archive

literature

  • Eugene Coan, Alan Kabat, Richard Petit: 2400 years of Malacology, American Malacological Society 2011
  • H. Crosse, P. Fischer, Obituary in J. de Conchyliologie, 27, 1879, 91-93
  • A. Trew: Henry and Arthur Adams new Molluscan names, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales 1992 (63 pages)
  • JC Melvill: British pioneers in recent conchological science. Journal of Conchology, 6, 1890, 220-221, Internet Archive

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Melvill, British pioneers in recent conchological science, Journal of Conchology, 6 1890, 220
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English ship's doctor and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Gosport , Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH 1878