Gavia adamsii (Gray, GR 1859) (1 Viewer)

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Gavia adamsii (Gray, GR 1859) OD pt.27 (1859) [lacks plates] - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - Biodiversity Heritage Library

This fine species is named after the late Mr. Adams, Surgeon of H.M.S. Enterprise, commanded vy Capt. Collinson, in the voyage made by him through Behring's Straits. Mr. Adams employed his pencil in producing beautiful drawings of the remarkable birds obtained during the voyage; but after his return to his country, he undertook the appointement of surgeon to one of H.M.S. on the West African Station, where he soon fell a victim to the unhealthy climate.

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White-bellied Diver Gavia adamsii G. R. Gray, 1859 [Alt. Yellow-billed Loon]
Edward Adams (1824–1856) was an Arctic explorer (1849– 1856), as surgeon and naturalist aboard HMS Enterprise. Part of this trip was to search the Bering Sea looking for the missing Franklin expedition. Enterprise became locked in by ice in Lancaster Sound and failed to find any sign of Franklin. Adams sailed as ship's surgeon aboard HMS Hecla (1856) for the West Africa station. His health was not good after his experiences in the Arctic and he succumbed to typhus and was burried in Sierra Leone.

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Edward Adams (1824-1856) British Navy surgeon-explorer in the Arctic 1849-1855, and West Africa 1856 (Gavia).

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b. 24 Feb 1824 Great Barton, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk d. 12 Nov 1856 Sierra Leone

Björn recently reported that Mearns & Mearns 2022 have him as:

Edward Adams (1824–1856), ... "... an unfortunate [English] naturalist who survived two rigorous and exiting expeditions to the Arctic only to succumb soon afterwards. ..."

Some more Edward Adams (surgeon) - Wikipedia . If correct he died on H.M.S. Hecla

First Arctic expeditin which seems to be with James Clark Ross and started in 1848 and they should have returned November 1849. The second started 1850 with Richard Collinson and they returned 1855.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong with the expedition dates. Any idea where the drawings of Adams are now?

P.S. Some birds are named after Ross The Key to Scientific Names - Birds of the World but it does not look like Collinson was homored in any. Icriospathodus collinsoni (Solien, 1979) is not named for him but for James Waller Collinson (of course no bird at all).

In recognition of J. W. Collinson, a student of Lower Triassic conodonts