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Authorised form of nameAdams; Andrew Leith (1827 - 1882); army surgeon and naturalist
Dates1827 - 1882
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBellfield, Banchory, Kincardineshire, Scotland
Date of birth21 March 1827
Place of deathRushbrook Villa, Queenstown, Cork, Ireland
Date of death29 July 1882
OccupationSurgeon
Research fieldGeology
Zoology
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1872
Age at election45
ProposerWilliam Benjamin Carpenter; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; Joseph Prestwich; James Ranald Martin; George Busk; Charles Lyell; William Boyd Dawkins; Thomas Graham Balfour.
RelationshipsParents: Francis Adams (1796–1861), surgeon and translator of Hippocrates, and his Elspeth Shaw (d. 1845).
Published worksRCN 24238
General contextCollected and described species of birds and mammals.
Reported on the Maltese cholera epidemic of 1865.
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/50742485
Royal Society codeNA6416
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1872/10Adams, Andrew Leith: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/10/198Letter from A [Andrew] Leith Adams, Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Science for Ireland, Stephen's Green, Dublin, to the Royal Society20 January 1875
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
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