Andrew Leith Adams

Andrew Leith Adams FRSE, FRS (21 Mart 1827 - 29 Temmuz 1882) İskoç bir ordu doktoru, doğa bilimci ve jeologdu.

Çeşitli zamanlarda görev yaptığı Asya ve Orta Doğu'ya yaptığı seyahatleri de anlatan kuş ve memeli örneklerini toplayıp tanımladı. Aynı zamanda Romancı Bertha Jane Grundy ile evli ve yazar Francis Adams'ın babasıdır.^[1]

Yayınlar değiştir

Adams , Hindistan'da Bir Doğa Bilimcisinin Gezintileri, Batı Himalayaları ve Kaşmir (1867), Nil Vadisi ve Malta'da Bir Doğa Bilimcisinin Notları (1871) ve Tarla ve Orman Rambles (1873) adlı üç kitap yazmış ve bilimsel topluluklara çok sayıda notla katkıda bulunmuştur. Yayınları şunlardır:

Adams, A.L. (1859). "Notes on the habits, haunts, etc. of some of the birds of India". Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 26: 466–512. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1858.tb06404.x.
Adams, A.L. (1859). "The birds of Cashmere and Ladakh". Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 27: 169–190.
Adams, A.L. (1863). "Observations on the Fossiliferous caves of Malta". Journal of the Royal Society. 4 (2): 11–19. 2 plates, July 1862-Jan. 1863.
Adams, A.L. (1864). "Notes on the Geology of a portion of the Nile Valley north of the Second Cataract in Nubia, taken chiefly with the view of inducing further search for fluviatile shells at high levels". The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 20 (1–2): 6–19. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1864.020.01-02.08. 4 figures.
Adams, Andrew Leith (1867). Wanderings of a naturalist in India. Edinburgh: Edmondston and Douglas.
Adams, A.L. (1868). "On a species of dormouse (Myoxus) occurring in the fossil state in Malta". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 6 (5): 307–308. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1868.tb00579.x. with a plate.
Adams, A.L. (1870). Notes of a naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta. 195pp. Edinburgh (Edmonton and Douglas).
Adams, A.L. (1871). Monograph on British fossil elephants. London: Palaeontographical Society.
Adams, A.L. (1873). Field and forest rambles. London: Henry S. King & Co.
Adams, A.L. (1874). "On the dentition and osteology of the Maltese fossil elephant, being a description of the remains discovered by the author in Malta between the years 1860 and 1866". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 9 (1): 1–124. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1874.tb00235.x. plates I–XXII.
Adams, A.L. (1874). Concluding Report on the Maltese Fossil Elephants. Report of the British Association for 1873, 185–187.
Adams, A. L. (1875). "On a fossil saurian vertebra, Arctosaurus osborni from the Arctic region". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 2: 177–179.
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Kaynakça değiştir

^ Gaston, A. J. in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Volume 1. pp. 222–223
^ First published in four chapters in The Field (October 1875 - January 1876). Also published in three parts in Scientific American, supplements of 19 May–2 June 1877.

İlişkilendirme

Chisholm, Hugh, (Ed.) (1911). "Adams, Andrew Leith". Encyclopædia Britannica (11. bas.). Cambridge University Press.

Diğer kaynaklar değiştir

Anon (19 Ağustos 1882) Ölüm ilanı: Andrew Leith Adams, MB, FRS . İngiliz Tıp Dergisi 2(1129):338

[dnb-1] Gaston, A. J. in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Volume 1. pp. 222–223

[2] First published in four chapters in The Field (October 1875 - January 1876). Also published in three parts in Scientific American, supplements of 19 May–2 June 1877.

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