Andrew Leith Adams

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Andrew Leith Adams (March 21, 1827 - July 29, 1882) was a Scottish physician, naturalist and geologist. He was the father of the writer Francis Adams.

Adams was an army physician, serving in the 22nd Infantry Regiment in 1848 in India. He also served in Kashmir, Egypt, Malta, Gibraltar and Canada. He spent his spare time studying the natural history of these countries.

After his retirement from the army in 1873, Adams was professor of natural history at Trinity College, Dublin and Queen's College, Cork. He published Wanderings of a Naturalist in India, the Western Himalayas and Cashmere (1867) and Notes of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta (1871). He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1872.

He is commemorated in the Black-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla adamsii.

[edit] Publications

• Adams, A. L. (1859): Notes on the habits, haunts, etc. of some of the birds of India. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 26, 466-512.
• Adams,AL (1859): The birds of Cashmere and Ladakh. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 27, 169-190.