Article ID: CBB191985634

John Adams FLS of Pembroke (1769–1798): A Forgotten Welsh Naturalist and Conchologist (2019)

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John Adams was a member of a long line of landed gentry from Pembrokeshire, Wales. At a young age, he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society and read four papers before his untimely death by drowning at the age of 29. He described 53 invertebrate species as new to science, mostly from small molluscan shells, but he should be regarded as a naturalist, not a shell collector. He read mathematics at Cambridge University and seems to have relied heavily on his library and social connections to develop his expertise in natural history. Although never publishing on botany, the annotations in his botanical books and his connections with John Symmons and James Edward Smith show him to be competent with the British flora.

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Authors & Contributors
Walker, Margot
Dickey, Stephanie S.
Ezra, Ruth
Andreia Salvador
Grasskamp, Anna
Partridge, Derek
Concepts
Shells
Natural history
Conchology
Collectors and collecting
Science and art
Naturalists
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Prehistory
Early modern
Modern
Places
New Guinea
Mediterranean region
Wales
London (England)
Germany
France
Institutions
Linnean Society of London
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Hopkins Observatory, Williams College
Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Geneve
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
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