Adam White

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Adam White is a British zoologist , born the April 29th 1817 with Edinburgh and dead the January 4th 1879 with Glasgow.

Child, it is sensitized with the Natural history by the large zoologist John Edward Gray (1800 - 1875), directing the department of Zoologie of the British Museum. At the eight years age, White obtains there a station of assistant, function which it occupies until in 1863.

White works more especially in the field of the Entomologie. He is the author of approximately 60 publications on the Insecte S like on the Crustacé S. Among those, he is necessary to quote the List off the Specimens off Crustacea in the Collection off the British Museum of 1847, has off Popular History Mammalia of 1850 and Tabular View off the Orders and Leading Families off Insects of 1857. One owes him in particular the description of several tax important like the kind with Langouste S Panulirus .

White studies in particular the specimens brought back by the many British scientific exhibitions of the 19th century in particular those of H.M.S. Beagle in Australia.

It sinks in a deep depression following the death of his wife and withdraws Natural history museum in 1863. It is interned in an asylum in Scotland where it carries out a newspaper whose articles are carried out by the patients of this institution.

Source

Biography in English of T. Kovinthan and Mr. Tse of the department of botany of the university of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum

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