St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams
Fonds
1701-1996

The papers comprise Adams's correspondence, notes and diaries, correspondence after his death, transcripts of correspondence and papers made for Donald MacAlister, biographical and miscellaneous material.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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Adams/Box 39/18/5
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1819-1892 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Unidentified scrap of mathematics. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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Adams/Box 39/18/2
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1819-1892 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"Card trick & solution by Profr. Adams." Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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Adams/Box 39/18/1
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1819-1892 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"Ring dial usually small & portable consisting of...". Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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Adams/Box 39/17/1
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20 Oct. 1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Copy of JCA's contribution to the Prime Meridian Conference, Washington, October 1884, Protocol VI, of 20 Oct. p170-172. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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Adams/Box 39/16/2
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14 Mar. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"The relative position of the two heads of Biela's Comet", Monthly Notices RAS, 14 Mar. 1846. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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Adams/Box 39/16/1
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25 Aug. 1877

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Vindication "of Sir Isaac Newton from the imputation of a mistake regarding the motion of the apse of the moon's orbit...". copied from the Athenaeum, 25 Aug. 1877. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of paper 'On the perturbations of Uranus'