ADAMS, HENRY CARTER ( g ,1_ 52-1921), American economist, was born at Davenport, Ia., Dec. 31, 1852. He was educated at Iowa college and Johns Hopkins university, where he was a fellow 1876-78, and in French and German universities. He afterwards taught at Cornell university, and in 1887 became professor of political economy and finance in the University of Michigan. He also became statistician to the Interstate Com merce Committee and was in charge of the transport department in the 1900 census. His principal works include The State in Relation to Industrial Action (1887) ; Public Debts (1887) ; The Science of Finance (1888); Economics and Jurisprudence (1897) ; Description of Industry (1918) and American Railway Accounting (1918). He died Aug. 11, 1921.