AdamsA

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Adams, Arthur

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1820, unknown where. Died: 1878, Honor Oak, Kent, England

career:

Assistant Surgeon on H.M.S. ‘Samarang’ (itinerary etc. see sub Capt. E. Belcher), author of some publications on this voyage,¹ and numerous zoological papers.

Collecting localities:

Evidently some botanical collections were made during the voyage, but the chief object was decidedly zoological.

collections:

Plants from a certain Adams are preserved in Herb. Imp. Gard. St Petersb. (= Leningrad) [LE], no collecting locality known to us;² probably not identical.

literature:

(1) A. Adams: ‘Notes on the Natural History of the islands’ (in Belcher, Narrative etc., vol. 2).
Together with others he published the ‘Zoology’ of the Voyage (London 1850).
(2) cf. A. Decandolle, Phytographie, 1880, p. 391.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Adams, Arthur
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1820, unknown where. Died: 1878, Honor Oak, Kent, England
	career: Assistant Surgeon on H.M.S. ‘Samarang’ (itinerary etc. see sub Capt. E. Belcher), author of some publications on this voyage,¹ and numerous zoological papers.
	Collecting localities: Evidently some botanical collections were made during the voyage, but the chief object was decidedly zoological.
	collections: Plants from a certain Adams are preserved in Herb. Imp. Gard. St Petersb. (= Leningrad) [LE], no collecting locality known to us;² probably not identical.
	literature: (1) A. Adams: ‘Notes on the Natural History of the islands’ (in Belcher, Narrative etc., vol. 2). Together with others he published the ‘Zoology’ of the Voyage (London 1850). (2) cf. A. Decandolle, Phytographie, 1880, p. 391.