{{Short description|English physician and naturalist (1820–1878)}} {{other people|Arthur Adams}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Arthur Adams | image = Arthur Adams zoologist.jpg | image_size = <!--| alt = --> | caption = | birth_date = 1820 | birth_place = Gosport, Hampshire, United Kingdom | death_date = 1878 | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Malacology | workplaces = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = A. Adams | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = | relatives = Henry Adams (brother) }}
'''Arthur Adams''' (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an English physician and naturalist.
Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board {{HMS|Samarang|1822|6}} during the survey of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, from 1843 to 1846.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum |publisher=Adamant Media |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-4021-8140-5 |chapter=Adams (Arthur) [1820–1878] |pages=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWtjNPH5w58C&pg=PA23}}</ref> He edited the ''Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang'' (1850). Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the Crustacea from the voyage. In 1857, during the Second China War whilst serving as Surgeon on {{HMS|Actaeon|1831|6}}, he was present at the storming of Canton and awarded the China War Medal. He retired as Staff Surgeon aboard flagship {{HMS|Royal Adelaide|1828|6}} at Plymouth in 1870.
He was a prolific malacologist who described "hundreds of new species, most of them unillustrated and insufficiently diagnosed".<ref>{{cite book |author=S. Peter Dance |year=1966 |title=Shell Collecting. An Illustrated History |isbn=978-0-571-06762-6 |publisher=Faber & Faber}} Cited in {{cite journal|author=E. Alison Kay |year=1968 |title=Spurious Species Part III. Shells Erroneously Described From The Hawaiian Islands |journal=Hawaiian Shell News |volume=16 |issue=3 |series=New Series No. 99 |pages=1, 5 |url=https://www.conchology.be/?t=5002&year=1968&volume=3&hsn=10097 }}</ref> He partly worked together with his brother Henry Adams (1813–1877) and together they wrote ''[https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Adams%2C%20Arthur%2C%201829-1878%22 The genera of recent mollusca: arranged according to their organization]'' (three volumes, 1858). He also wrote ''Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria'' (1870), and an article about the interesting spiders seen on his travels.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Arthur Adams |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |year=1847 |volume=20 |pages=289–297 |title=Notes on the habits of certain exotic spiders |issue=134 |url=https://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof20lond#page/289/mode/1up |doi=10.1080/037454809496053}}</ref>
== Works == * {{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.18240/page/8183/ |year=1862 |title=A Visit to Pratas Island |author=Arthur Adams |journal=The Zoologist |volume=20 |pages=8183–8184 |via=Internet Archive}}
== Species named after Arthur Adams == ''Finella adamsi'' (Dall, 1889), ''Arcopsis adamsi'' (Dall, 1886), ''Hinnites adamsi'' Dall, 1886 (synonym of ''Pseudohinnites adamsi'' (Dall, 1886) ), ''Brachidontes adamsianus'' (Dunker, 1857), ''Nucinella adamsi'' (Dall, 1898); likely ''Natica adamsiana'' R. W. Dunker, 1860, possibly ''Octopus adamsi'' Benham, 1944 (synonym of ''Octopus huttoni'' Benham, 1943), possibly ''Zebrida adamsii'' White, 1847.<ref>[http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.a.html Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names: Henry Adams] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005202151/http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.a.html |date=2011-10-05 }}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Internet Archive author |search=( "Adams, Arthur, 1829-1878" OR "Adams, Arthur, 1820-1878" OR ((mollusks OR species OR mollusca OR japan OR animal OR samarang OR "natural history") AND "Arthur Adams") )}} * [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist WoRMS : List with taxa named by Adams]
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