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observation of animals and plants, and to lay up a store of facts which his 

 professional knowledge of anatomy and physiology enabled him subse- 

 quently to turn to good account. He retired from the Army in 1873 with the 

 rank of Deputy Surgeon-General, and in the following year became a successful 

 candidate for the Professorship of Zoology in the Royal College of Science 

 at Dublin ; whence in 1878 he was elected to fill the chair of Zoology 

 and Anatomy at Queen's College, Cork. His residence in Ireland caused 

 him to pay somewhat particular attention to Irish Mammals, more especially 

 the fossil and extinct species. The results of his investigations on this 

 subject will be found embodied in his " Report ou the History of Irish 

 Fossil Mammals," read before the Royal Irish Academy, 10th June, 1877, 

 and published in the ' Proceedings ' of the Academy, 2nd series, vol. iii., 

 and a further paper " On recent and Extinct Irish Mammals," published in 

 the ' Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ' for 1878. His 

 remarks on the Ursine remains, which he examined from all parts of Ireland, 

 wherever they were procurable, are valuable as having been based on the 

 examination and comparison of an extensive series, and his observations on 

 other species now extinct in Ireland are, many of them, of much interest to 

 zoologists. His most important scientific work perhaps is a " Monograph 

 of the Fossil Elephants of the Maltese Islands," the materials for which 

 were collected chiefly while he was quartered at Malta, and which was 

 published in the ' Transactions of the Zoological Society ' for 1875. In a 

 previously published Report on this subject (Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1873, 

 pp. 185 — 187), Dr. Adams had recognised as distinct species Elephas meli- 

 tensis, Falconer, E.mnaidriensis, Adams, and (more doubtfully) E.falconeri, 

 Busk. The remains of all three species are figured in his monograph, 

 with a map showing the localities in which they were found. He was elected 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1872, and LL.D. of Aberdeen in 1881. 



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The Com/pleat Angler, or the Contemplative Marts Recreation. 

 Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the 

 perusal of most Anglers. London : printed by T. Maxey 

 for Eich. Harriot in S. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street, 

 1653. [Facsimile. London, 1882. Quaritch.] 



The popularity of Izaak Walton's ' Compleat Angler ' may 

 be estimated from the fact that according to the most recent 

 authority (Mr. Thomas Satchell, who has been long engaged in 

 preparing for the press a new edition of Westwood's ' Bibliotheca 



