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Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/12/1
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9 Dec. 1852

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Account of eclipse. Introduction to Lunar Parallax tables nearly complete. Plan for removal of RAS to Kensington. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/12/3
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14 Apr. 1853

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Failiure of application for Superintendence of Nautical Almanac. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to G.H. Darwin

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/46/1
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14 Dec. 1889

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

[Observatory] Syndicate neglected to audit the accounts of the Sheepshanks Fund at their last meeting, as they should have done.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 2/32/1
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7 Feb. 1862

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Ways of spending £2000 of Sheepshanks grant: Transit Circle, Chronographic apparatus, central clock, telegraph wires. See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 16 Jan.1862.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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