St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 3/3/2
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13 Apr. 1864

Progess of work on Capillary attraction. Ballistics work at Woolwich Academy. Visit to Greenwich Observatory to examine equipment for possible use at Woolwich. Diagram on tracing paper enclosed.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/3/3
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12 Oct. 1864

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Progress of manufacture of Chronoscope. Dealing with Woolwich Committee. Social news.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/4/1
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14 Jan. 1865

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Woolwich teaching. Progress of work on chronoscope. Mechanical theory of heat.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/7/1
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23 Jan. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Patrick Barry 'On Shoeburyness and the guns' (London: Sampson & Low, 1865).

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/8/2
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18 Sep. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Holiday. Next chronograph experiments. Mr Cropper (schoolmaster at Minting).

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/8/3
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5 Oct. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sucessful chronograph experiments. The instrument's (political) future. Improvement to the design. Has copies of the description of it available.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/9/1
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17 Oct. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Details and results of recent experiments with chronograph.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/18/1
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17 Nov. 1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Parlous state of national affairs. Encloses diagram comparing F.B's ballistics tables with those of Krupps (missing: possibly table with F.B. to J.C.A. of 25 Oct.1881. Box 3/14/2) J.J.Sylvester in Nature, on matrices.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/18/2
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5 Jan. 1885

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

National affairs, political and agricultural. Distribution of copies of report (on ballistics) of 1879.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/19/1
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8 June 1885

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Ballistics. Newtonian law of resistance.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

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