Tuhia he tohutoro mo tenei whitianga - Ko Adams te kaiawhina o te taote Royal Navy i runga i te HMS "Samarang" i te tirotiro i nga moutere o te Eastern Archipelago, mai i te 1843 ki te 1846. I whakatikahia e ia te "Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang" (1850). I mahi tahi a Adam White me ia i roto i nga whakaahuatanga o te Crustacea mai i te haerenga. I te tau 1857, i te Pakanga Tuarua o Haina
I a ia e mahi ana hei Kaiwhakarato i runga i te HMS "Actaeon", i tae atu ia ki te whakaekenga o Canton ka whakawhiwhia ki te Tohu Pakanga o Haina. I reti ia hei Kaihaututu Kaihaututu i runga i te HMS "Royal Adelaide" i Plymouth i te tau 1870.