Primarily interested in Lepidoptera but Chalmers-Hunt (1976) records that some British Coleoptera were auctioned by Stevens on 24 September 1912. Adams, who lived in Enfield for most of his life, was the brother of Frederick Charlstrom Adams and one of the founder members of the Enfield Entomological Society. He gave one collection to that Society and another, formed during the last thirty years of his life, of Lepidoptera to the Naural History Museum. This last (140,000 specimens) was given with the stipulation that it should be known as the ‘Adams Collection’.
In a manuscript journal now in the University Museum, Cambridge, Oliver Janson records that he acquired beetles at the sale of the ‘Adams Collection’ in May 1873 and perhaps this may have been an earlier collection formed by him. Correspondence relating to the sale is in the Janson archive in the Natural History Museum.
There are obituaries in Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1912, 48: 243) and Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1912: clxv).
FES 1877-1912. (MD 7.01, 9/22)