Frederick M. Adamson (born 1816, died 1860, age 44) was an early settler in

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. He was the first settler to make

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collections in the

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area; between 1840 and 1856, he sent to the

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a series of what William Hooker described as "extensive and excellent collections". Several of his specimens became

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s for ''

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''. Not much else is known about him, except that he was a member of the

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