Charles Adams (seismologist)
Charles Edward Adams (1 October 1870 – 31 October 1945) was a New Zealand university lecturer, surveyor, astronomer and seismologist.  His father, Charles William Adams, emigrated from Tasmania in 1862 and was also a surveyor and astronomer. Charles was born on 1 October 1870 in Lawrence, New Zealand, educated at the University of Canterbury (then Canterbury College) and then lectured at Lincoln University and Victoria University of Wellington before becoming government astronomer.

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1870 births
1945 deaths
New Zealand educators
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand surveyors
University of Canterbury alumni
People from Lawrence, New Zealand
New Zealand seismologists
20th-century New Zealand astronomers