No. 21631 Charles Baker Adams
Charles Baker Adams, 1814-1853
Charles Baker Adams, an American chemist and zoologist, born in Dorchester, Mass., Jan. 11, 1814, died in St. Thomas, Jan. 19, 1853. He graduated at Amherst college, and was associated with Professor Edward Hitchcock in a geological survey of New York. In 1837 he became tutor in Amherst college, and in 1838 was chosen professor of chemistry and natural history in Middlebury college, Vt., but in 1847 returned to be a professor at Amherst, In 1845, 1846, and 1847 he was engaged in a geological survey of Vermont, Between 1844 and 1851 he made journeys to Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies, for scientific purposes. He wrote ” Contributions to Conchology,” “Monographs of Several Species of Shells,” and other treatises. Not long before his death he published a useful work on elementary geology, in which he was assisted by Professor Gray of Brooklyn.
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ADAMS, Charles Baker, geologist, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 11 January, 1814; died in St. Thomas, W. I., 19 January, 1853. He was graduated at Amherst College in 1834, and studied for two years at Andover theological seminary. Later he was associated with Prof. Edward Hitchcock in a geological survey of New York. In 1837 he became tutor in Amherst College, and in 1838 was made professor of chemistry and natural history in Middlebury College, Vermont From 1845 to 1848 he was state geologist of Vermont, and published annual reports of his work. In 1847 he was chosen professor of astronomy and zoology in Amherst College. Between 1844 and 1851 he made journeys to Panama and the West Indies for scientific purposes. He was the author of eleven numbers of “Contributions to Conchology,” monographs of “Stoastoma” and ” Vitrinella,” ” Catalogue of Shells Collected in Panama” (New York, 1852), and, with Alonzo Gray, “Elements of Geology ” (1852).
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Charles Baker Adams (January 11, 1814 – January 19, 1853)[1] was an American educator and naturalist.. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1814, the son of Charles J. Adams. He graduated from Amherst College in 1834 with high honors (having transferred from Yale University to Amherst in 1832), and became an assistant to Edward Hitchcock in the Geological Survey of New York in 1836. In 1837, he became a tutor and a lecturer in geology at Amherst College. He left to become professor of chemistry and natural history at Middlebury College in 1838, remaining in that position through 1847. He served as the first state geologist of Vermont from 1845 through 1848. In 1847, he left Middlebury to become professor of astronomy, zoology, and natural history at Amherst College, a position he retained till his death in 1853, aged 39. He visited the West Indies several times in the interest of science, and wrote on conchology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1849. With the assistance of Alonzo Gray of Brooklyn, New York, he published an elementary work on geology. He was the author of eleven numbers of Contributions to Conchology, monographs on Stoastoma and Vitrinella, and Catalogue of Shells Collected in Panama. (New York, 1852). Adams B. C. (1852). Catalogue of shells collected at Panama, with notes on their synonymy, station, and geographical distribution. New York, R. Craighead, printer. 334 pp. Gray A. & Adams B. C. (1860). Elements of geology. New York, Harper.