St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/34/2
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22 Mar. 1866

Secular Acceleration of Moon's mean motion: De La Rue's address, Cayley, Hansen.

Lloyd, Humphrey (1800-1881) physicist and university administrator

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 12/27/2
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8 Jan. 1884

Iniquities of RAS Council. Stone's questions on sun's motion and lunar tables. Stone. Cayley on the same. Seeing Sylvester.

Pritchard, Charles (1808-1893) headmaster and astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 7/25/2
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4 May 1863

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Congratulations on marriage. A. Cayley elected corresponding member of L'Institut Francais. Finding positions of fixed stars.

Gibbons, George Buckmaster (d 1884)

Autograph letter signed to G.H. Darwin

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/45/3
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16 June 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sends Dixon's two Essays; GHD already has Cayley's comments. Arrangements for meeting of Smith's Prize examiners.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to G.H. Darwin

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/44/3
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(Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Leaves Workman's paper on Singular Solutions for GHD's opinion, as is not in JCA's field. Cayley approves it.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/17/2
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21 July 1892

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Information for JCA's biography: encloses letter JCA to Cayley, and quote from Romilly. Current Univeristy affairs: discussion about students from New Zealand.

Clark, John Willis (1833-1910) Cambridge University Registrary

Autograph letter signed to Arthur Cayley

Adams/Box 28/17/3
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6 Dec. 1893

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

In French. JCA's correspondence. Endorsed to EA by Cayley at head.

Hermite, Ph (fl 1893)

Autograph letter signed to A. Cayley

Adams/Box 16/6/1
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12 Dec. 1855

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledgement of paper on Hansen's theory. AC's treatment of Lunar theory by method of variation of elements is new; outlines the possible difficulties. JCA is applying this method to the secular inequalities of the moon's mean motion, further to paper in PTRS, 1853.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to A. Cayley

Adams/Box 16/6/4
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25 Jan. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledgement of copy of paper on Disturbing functions. Origin of error of Hansen's. Agrees to look at remainder of development of [omega].

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to A. Cayley

Adams/Box 16/8/3
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19 July 1878

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Explanation of peculiar numbers.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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