St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 12/44/3
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22 Nov. 1882

Tides: peculiarities at Southampton noticed by Sir W. Thomson. Encloses extract of Admiralty tide table in explanation. Major Baird to vist G.H. Darwin and JCA about Indian tides.

Roberts, Edward (fl 1877-1890)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/5/5
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4 Aug. (No year given.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Written from Hampstead. Fluidity of centre of earth: Thomson vs. Delaunay.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/7/1
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10 May (No year given.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Written from Hampstead. Possible Solar reasons for climate change. Retardation of the earth's rotation: Sir W. Thomson.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/8/1
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9 Sep. (No year given.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Written from Hampstead. Terrestrial tides. Beginning of subject? Slight alteration of JHR's equation gives Thomson's, that for a viscous fluid rotating globe, or that for a fluid globe. JHR. offered Nevawashky the Order of the Bath: he skedaddled.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/4/3
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17 Feb. (No year given.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Written from Hampstead. Aurora Borealis. [Smith's Prize questions] Method of Sylvester for partition of numbers [Ferrers Graphs.?] Riddles. Paper on Motion of Sphere with fluid centre, retardation of earth. Still with Stokes. Thomson. Opinion of Stokes.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/6/1
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24 Dec. 1879

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Wishes to check that Thomson & Tait's book is correct about JCA's and Delaunay's work on the Secular Acceleration of the Moon.

Darwin, Sir George Howard (1845-1912) Knight, mathematician and geophysicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/2/3
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4 July (No year given.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Written from Hampstead. Retardation of the earth: information on tides from Sir W. Thomson. Paper now with Stokes.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/6/2
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18 Feb. (No year given.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Written from Hampstead. Smith's Prize and Senate House examinations: difficulty of papers. Dislike of Thomson's work. State of University mathematics.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/22/3
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16 Jan. 1856

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Rankine's paper: has Thomson's report on it, now needs JCA's. Cory has announced his engagement, Brown also and Ferguson rumoured to be engaged. This is good for the College. When is JCA to join them?

Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903) 1st Baronet, physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/7/3
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19 Aug. (No year given.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Written from Hampstead. Rejection of paper on tides and retardation of the earth by Thomson and Rayleigh. Helpful contribution from Nevawashky.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

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