Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart
- Adams/Box 42/17/6
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- 25 Nov. 1946
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Controversy over Airy's part in the discovery of Neptune.
Jones, Sir Harold Spencer (1890-1960) Knight, astronomer
Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Controversy over Airy's part in the discovery of Neptune.
Jones, Sir Harold Spencer (1890-1960) Knight, astronomer
Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Comments on Smart's essay on JCA.
Addey, John Michael (1920-1982) astrologer
Typescript letter signed to St John's College Library
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Letter accompanying gift of papers (now Box 27) to SJC.
Royal Aeronautical Society
Typescript letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Opinion on distribution of unpublished copies of planetary work.
Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) astronomer
Typescript letter signed to F.P. White
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Re W.M. Smart's letter regarding his collection of Adams papers.
Wordie, Sir James Mann (1889-1962) Knight, polar explorer and scholar
Typescript extract from letter to J.M. Wordie
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Re sending Adams papers he inherited from Donald MacAlister to the College.
Smart, William Marshall (1889-1975) astronomer
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
"Extract from Report of the Council of the General Annual Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society held 12th Feby. 1847" Copied from Monthly Notices of the RAS, Vol. 7 No. 12 p 214-217. On the award of the RAS's Gold Medal for the discovery of Neptune. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.
Royal Astronomical Society
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
"Historical note concerning the discovery of Neptune", from Copernicus, March 1882. On D'Arrest's part in the search for Neptune made in the Berlin Observatory. Copy made for MacAlister's biography.
Dreyer, John Louis Emile (1852-1926) astronomer
Typescript copy of letter to the Editor of the Standard, in reply to letter of J.F. Tennant
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Made for MacAlister's biography of Adams.
MacAlister, Sir Donald (1854-1934) 1st Baronet, physician and medical administrator
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of anonymous article on the discovery of Neptune in the North British Review Vol. 7 p.207, May 1847.
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