Memorials
- Memorial in Westminster Abbey with a portrait medallion, by Albert Bruce-Joy;
- A bust, by Joy in the hall of St John's College, Cambridge;
- Another youthful bust belongs to the Royal Astronomical Society;
- Portraits by:
- Hubert von Herkomer in Pembroke College;
- Paul Raphael Montord in the combination room of St John's;
- There is a memorial tablet, with an inscription by Archbishop Benson in Truro Cathedral;
- Passmore Edwards erected a public institute in his honour at Launceston, near his birthplace.
- Adams Nunatak, a nunatak on Neptune Glacier in Alexander Island in Antarctica, is named after him
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