ADAMS, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER (1873– ), American zoologist, born in Clinton, July 23, 1873. He gradu ated from Illinois Wesleyan university in 1895, received the degree of master of science from Harvard university in 1899 and of doctor of philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1908. He was assistant in biology at Illinois Wesleyan university in q6, assistant entomologist in the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History in 1896-98, curator of the museum, University of Michigan, in 1903-06, and director of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History in 1906-07. From 1908 to 1914 he was asso ciate in animal oecology in the University of Illinois, and from 1914 to 1926 assistant professor and professor of forest zoology in the New York college of forestry, and from 1919 to 1926 direc tor of the Roosevelt Wild Life Experiment station, both at Syra cuse, New York. In 1926 he was appointed director of the New York State museum, Albany, New York. His published writings include Guide to the Study of Animal Ecology (1914) and nu merous articles on faunas, habitats and associations, especially of prairies, lakes and forests, migration, geographical distribution and the relation of animal oecology to state and national parks.