Fowler (1912: 481) named Paussus adamsoni after Adamson who collected it at Minhu, Irawadi when stationed there as a Colonel in the Royal Artillery. Later he became Assistant Commissioner and Chief Magistrate in Mandalay before leaving Burma after more than twenty years. On his return to England he lived at Crag Hall, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Davis & Brewer (1986) record that collections of Lepidoptera and ethnographical material made by him are in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, together with published catalogues, but do not mention Coleoptera.
Committee member of the Natural History Society of Northumberland from 1897, Hon. Curator, Invertebrate Zoology, 1897, Vice- President, 1903-07. (MD 7.01, 9/22)
Dates
d. 25 June 1930