Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1917, and awarded the Flavelle Medal, which is given for outstanding contributions to biological science, in 1937. The Frank Dawson Adams Building at McGill University is named in his honor. A plaque in his honor was erected on the Redpath Museum on the McGill campus in 1950. He retired from McGill in 1924, and began to travel widely, collecting books on the history of geology, as well as rocks and minerals for McGill. He published several papers on the geology of Ceylon and also on the history of geology, culminating in his book Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences (1938). It became a classic and was reprinted by Dover Publications in 1954. He left his rare book collection (1581 monographs) to McGill university. References Further reading External links Frank Dawson Adams at The Canadian Encyclopedia The Archives of Frank Dawson Adams 1859 births 1942 deaths Canadian geologists Geological Survey of Canada personnel Canadian university and college faculty deans Canadian Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences High School of Montreal alumni McGill University Faculty of Science alumni McGill University faculty Anglophone Quebec people Wollaston Medal winners Lyell Medal winners Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Montreal Presidents of the Geological Society of America