42 The Scottish Naturalist. 



entered the army, as assistant surgeon, in 1848; rising to be 

 surgeon-major in 1861. The duties of his profession were always 

 thoroughly discharged by him. His report on an epidemic of 

 cholera in Malta in 1865, and his conscientious devotion to the 

 care of the sick during the epidemic, won him high praise. In 

 1873 he retired from the army with the rank of Deputy Surgeon- 

 General. The same year he was appointed to the professorship 

 of Zoology in the College of Science in Dublin. In 1878, he 

 became Professor of Natural History in the University of Cork ; 

 which post he held till his death in the summer of 1882. He 

 became F.G.S. in 1870, F.R.S. in 1872, LL.D. of Aberdeen Uni- 

 versity in 1 88 1, and D.C.L. of Queen's University, Ireland, a few 

 weeks before his death. 



During his service in the army Dr. Adams was stationed in 

 various parts of the world, including Canada, the Maltese islands 

 and Egypt, and the Western Himalayan mountains and Cashmere. 

 In all these countries he spent as much of his time as he could 

 spare from his official duties in field zoology, and in examination 

 of the fossiliferous caves and fissures, from which he obtained 

 many interesting fossil remains of vertebrates. After the year 

 1858 he published numerous articles in scientific journals on the 

 habits and haunts of the birds and mammals of the countries 

 visited by him ; as well as on the geological formations and the 

 fossiliferous caves of Malta, with their contained fossils. Among 

 these fossils he met with numerous remains of a small elephant, 

 which led to his making a special study of the elephants, and to 

 a " Monograph of the British Fossil Elephants " published in 

 1877. During his residence in Ireland he assisted in working out 

 the contents of fossiliferous caves in that country also, and wrote 

 on the extinct mammals of Ireland. 



His papers are scattered through the Reports of the British 

 Association, the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, the 

 Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society, the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 

 the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, and various other 

 journals. 



Dr. Adams also wrote several longer works, which were pub- 

 lished separately. These are : — u The Wanderings of a Naturalist 

 in India, the Western Himalayas and Cashmere" (1867); "Notes 

 of a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta" (1870); "Field 

 and Forest Rambles, with Notes and Observations on the Natural 



