Talk:Adam White (zoologist)

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Rather bizarre reference to White playing football for Rangers!

This seemingly respectable website (publisher: Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, a marine biology field station in Sweden) claims that White "long played football for the Glasgow Rangers, but an injury to his knee then stopped him from playing any more":

Mr. Adam White, (29 Apr. - Edinburgh) 1817-79 (4 Jan.), wrote books and articles about carcinology (i.a. a catalogue of British crustaceans), entomology and vertebrates in Britain during the middle part of the 19:th century. He had acquainted J.E. Gray (q.v.) and obtained an Assistant post at the British Museum's Zoology Department in 1835 and in 1841, when Samouelle (q.v.) was dismissed, this competent person succeded him (until 1863, when he quitted and left for Edinburgh after getting a serious depression when he became a widower, succeded at the Museum by Arthur Gardener Butler, 1844-1925, an entomologist, most known as a lepidopterologist, who retired in 1901, due to ill health) and was a friend of e.g. Gosse and Spence Bate. White was a devout Christian and long played football for the Glasgow Rangers, but an injury to his knee then stopped him from playing any more [Protomedeia whitei Bate (a synonym of Cheirocratus sundevalli (Rathke)), Carinocythereis whitei (Baird,1850), Carinocythereis whitei (Baird, 1850), Callianassa whitei Sakai, 1999, likely Hypselodoris whitei (Adams & Reeve, 1850)].

On the face of it this seems highly improbable, considering that Rangers FC was only founded shortly before White's death. Anyone any ideas? --Mais oui! (talk) 17:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

he didn't unless he started playing for rangers at the age of 57B68torshavn (talk) 22:53, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dates concerning his death=

In the article AWs date of death is given with 30.Dec.1878, in the reference cited they say he died on 4. Jan. 1879? Which is the right one? --Roo1812 (talk) 11:31, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]