Frank Dawson Adams

Frank Dawson Adams was a Canadian geologist born September 17, 1859, in Montreal, Canada East, who died December 26, 1942, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and who did pioneering work in petrographic microscopy in Canada beginning in 1883, demonstrated in his doctoral research that the Morin anorthosite rocks were igneous rocks intruded into Grenville sediments, conducted experimental studies of rock properties under high pressure and temperature with John Thomas Nicholson, and carried out geological mapping and petrological analysis of the Haliburton, Ontario, and Monteregian Hills regions; he later published Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences in 1938, reprinted by Dover Publications in 1954. He served as Logan Professor of Geology at McGill University from 1892 to 1924, president of the Geological Society of America in 1917, and president of the Royal Society of Canada from 1913 to 1914. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1896 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907, won the Lyell Medal in 1906, the Flavelle Medal in 1937, and received the Wollaston Medal in 1939.