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FRANK DAWSON ADAMS, emeritus Logan professor of geology and vice-principal of McGill University, Montreal, died on December 27 at the age of eighty-three. He was one of the great pioneers in the study of the Precambrian rocks of Canada and in the field of experimental geology. Born in Montreal on September 17, 1859, Adams was educated at McGill University, where he came under the influence of Sir William Dawson, his great predecessor in the Logan chair. After a year of postgraduate study at Yale, he was appointed an assistant on the Geological Survey of Canada : in this service he continued until 1889, when he resigned to become lecturer in geology at McGill University, succeeding to the chair four years later.
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TILLEY, C. Prof. F. D. Adams, F.R.S.. Nature 151, 102–103 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151102a0
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