| Authorised form of name | Adams; Andrew Leith (1827 - 1882); army surgeon and naturalist |
| Dates | 1827 - 1882 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Bellfield, Banchory, Kincardineshire, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 21 March 1827 |
| Place of death | Rushbrook Villa, Queenstown, Cork, Ireland |
| Date of death | 29 July 1882 |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Research field | Geology |
| Zoology |
| Activity | Education:
Aberdeen. MA (1846); MB (1848); LLD (1881)
Career:
Joined the Army; served as a Surgeon in India (1848); Surgeon Major (1861); retired from the Army (1873); Professor of Zoology, College of Science, Dublin; Professor of Natural History, Queen's College, Cork; wrote travel works; died of pulmonary haemorrhage.
Memberships:
MRCSE; LRCSE (1848) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1872 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| Proposer | William Benjamin Carpenter; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; Joseph Prestwich; James Ranald Martin; George Busk; Charles Lyell; William Boyd Dawkins; Thomas Graham Balfour. |
| Relationships | Parents: Francis Adams (1796–1861), surgeon and translator of Hippocrates, and his Elspeth Shaw (d. 1845). |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 24238 |
| OtherInfo | Collected and described species of birds and mammals.
Reported on the Maltese cholera epidemic of 1865. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/50742485 |
| Code | NA6416 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1872/10 | Adams, Andrew Leith: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/10/198 | Letter from A [Andrew] Leith Adams, Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Science for Ireland, Stephen's Green, Dublin, to the Royal Society | 20 January 1875 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |