> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 23](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264752) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1506819) QID Q1506819 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Adams, George Jr. (1750-1795), London optician and microscopist. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Adams, Jr.* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 13 (d. 14 Aug 1795); BB p. 2; BM 1: 10; Jackson p. 219; PR 18. ### Publications ##### n.18.860. Essays of the microsope **Title** *Essays of the microsope*; containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits, and oeconomy: on account of the various species, and singular properties, of the Hydrae and Vorticellae: a description of three hundred and eighty-three animalcula: with... London. 1787. Qu. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1787, p. i-xxiii, 1-724, *33 pl*. (plates occur also in oblong folio). (n.v.) *Ed. 2*: 1798 (p. \[xx\]: 1 Jan 1798), cover, p. \[i\], *allegoric pl*., \[iii\]-xvii, \[xviii-xxiv\], \[1\]-724, *pl. 1-32* (uncol.). *Copy*: U. – Additions by Frederick Kanmacher. *Ed. 3*: unknown. *Ed. 4*: 1798.