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Adam White

1817–78

Naturalist. Official in the zoological department of the British Museum, 1835–63. Described some of the insect specimens collected on the Beagle voyage.

Sources

Gilbert 1977

ODNB.

Bibliography

Gilbert, Pamela. 1977. A compendium of the biographical literature on deceased entomologists. London: British Museum (Natural History).

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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