Andrew Leith Adams

See also: Adams

Andrew Leith Adams is a Médecin, a Naturaliste and a British geologist , born the March 21st 1827 and dead the July 29th 1882.

He is doctor-soldier and serves in the 22e regiment of infantry towards 1848 in India. Towards 1865, he is the author of an important report/ratio on an epidemic of Choléra prevailing with Malta.

After its retirement of the army, it devotes its time to the Zoologie and teaches off the Zoologie with the Royal College Science of Ireland, with the Trinity College and Queen' S College of Dublin.

It publishes Wanderings off has Naturalist in India, the Western the Himalayas and Cashmere in 1867 and Notes off has Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta in 1871.

He becomes member of the Royal Society in 1872. He describes the Niverolle of Tibet ( Montifringilla adamsi ) in 1851. This one commemorates its name what is unusual: he is not use which a zoologist dedicates to itself a species. In fact, the niverolle should have been described initially by Frederic Moore (1830-1907) but this one does not appear. Also, the proper publication of Adams, which makes quotes the publication of Moore, becomes the reference of the description of the species.

Source

Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Close (New Haven and London): 400 p.

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