Charles Baker Adams
1814–53
American geologist and naturalist. Professor of chemistry and natural history, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1838. Vermont state geologist, 1845. Professor of natural history and astronomy, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1847–53. Travelled in Jamaica, 1843–4 and 1848–9, where he collected and studied molluscs.
Sources
DAB
Sarjeant 1980.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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