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He edited the Zoology of the voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Samarang (1850).
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Arthur Adams
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Career
Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS Samarang during the survey of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, from 1843 to 1846. Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the Crustacea from the voyage. He retired as Staff Surgeon aboard flagship HMS Royal Adelaide at Plymouth in 1870.
He was a prolific malacologist who described "hundreds of new species, most of them unillustrated and insufficiently diagnosed".
He also wrote Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria (1870), and an article about the interesting spiders seen on his travels. 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. West. Dunker, 1860, possibly Octopus adamsi Benham, 1944 (synonym of Octopus huttoni Benham, 1943), possibly Zebrida adamsii White, 1847.
