.A.MERIC^IS' 



JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



YoL. L JULY 1, 1865. No. 3. 



MEMOIR OP CHARLES B. ADAMS, LATE PROFESSOR 



OP ZOOLOGY IN AMHERST COLLEGE, 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



BY THOMAS BLAND, 



Charles B. Adams, the subject of this Memoir, was born in 

 Dorchester, Massachusetts, on the 11th of January, 1814. Of 

 a family of six children, he was the only one spared to his 

 parents. When four years old, his father, Mr. Charles J. 

 Adams, established himself in business in Boston, and resided 

 there during the rest of his life. 



At a very early age C. B. Adams manifested a decided taste 

 for Chemistry and Natural History, in which he was encou- 

 raged by his parents, who gave up a room to him for a labora- 

 tory, and furnished the means for procuring apparatus and 

 chemicals. Time usually spent by boys in sports and amuse- 

 ments, was occupied by young Adams in experimenting, and 

 in the study and arrangement of the various specimens in Na- 

 tural History contributed by his friends and collected by him- 

 self in walks with his father. 



C. B. Adams was prepared for College in Boston, and at 



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