Adam White

Adam White (April 29, 1817 – January 4, 1879) was a Scottish zoologist.

Biography

White was born in Edinburgh. He became acquainted with John Edward Gray, Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum. At the age of eighteen, White obtained a post in the Museum in the Zoology Department.

White specialised in insects and crustaceans, writing the "List of Crustacea in the British Museum" (1847), "A Popular History of Mammalia" (1850), and the "Tabular View of the Orders and Leading Families of Insects" (1857). He also studied specimens brought back by various expeditions, including the voyage of HMS Beagle to Australia.

White was a member of the Entomological Society of London from 1839 to 1863, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society from 1846 to 1855.

White retired in 1863, suffering from depression after the death of his wife.

External link

* [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29234 White, Adam (1817-1879), naturalist] by Ann Datta in Dictionary of National Biography