Andrew Leith Adams
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Pour les articles homonymes, voir Adams.Andrew Leith Adams est un médecin, un naturaliste et un géologue britannique, né le 21 mars 1827 et mort le 29 juillet 1882.
Il est médecin-militaire et sert dans le 22e régiment d'infanterie vers 1848 en Inde. Vers 1865, il est l'auteur d'un important rapport sur une épidémie de choléra sévissant à Malte.
Après sa retraite de l'armée, il consacre son temps à la zoologie et enseigne la zoologie au Royal College of Science d'Irlande, au Trinity College et au Queen's College de Dublin.
Il publie Wanderings of a Naturalist in India, the Western Himalaya and Cashmere en 1867 et Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta en 1871.
Il devient membre de la Royal Society en 1872. Il décrit la niverolle du Tibet (Montifringilla adamsi) en 1851. Celle-ci commémore son nom ce qui est inhabituel : il n’est pas d’usage qu’un zoologiste se dédie à lui-même une espèce. En fait, la niverolle aurait dû être décrite initialement par Frederic Moore (1830-1907) mais celle-ci ne paraît pas. Aussi, la propre publication d’Adams, qui fait cite la publication de Moore, devient la référence de la description de l’espèce.
Source
- Bo Beolens et Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird ? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Press (New Haven et Londres) : 400 p. (ISBN 0-300-10359-X)
Portail de l’histoire de la zoologie et de la botanique
Portail du Royaume-Uni
Catégories :- Naturaliste
- Naturaliste britannique
- Membre de la Royal Society
- Naissance en 1827
- Décès en 1882
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