Charles Baker Adams, an American chemist and zoologist, born in Dorchester, Mass., Jan. 11, 1814, died in St. Thomas, Jan. 19, 1853. He graduated at Amherst college, and was associated with Professor Edward Hitchcock in a geological survey of New York. In 1837 he became tutor in Amherst college, and in 1838 was chosen professor of chemistry and natural history in Middlebury college, Vt., but in 1847 returned to be a professor at Amherst, In 1845, 1846, and 1847 he was engaged in a geological survey of Vermont, Between 1844 and 1851 he made journeys to Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies, for scientific purposes. He wrote " Contributions to Conchology," "Monographs of Several Species of Shells," and other treatises. Not long before his death he published a useful work on elementary geology, in which he was assisted by Professor Gray of Brooklyn.