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'Manuscripts on the perturbations of Uranus by J.C. Adams 1841-1846 arranged and described by R.A. Sampson 1901'

Adams/W.16
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1841-1901

The contents of these MSS are described by Sampson in his article 'A description of Adams's manuscripts on the perturbations of Uranus', Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. LIV (1901), 143-170, and 20 pages are also reproduced in facsimile.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.111
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28 Oct. 1857

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Ancient eclipses. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.110
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17 Aug. 1857

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Hansen's lunar tables. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.109
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13 May 1856

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Secular variation of the moon's mean motion. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.106-107
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8 May 1856

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Secular variation of the moon's mean motion. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Notes on Adams's diaries 1867-1871

Adams/Box 39/9/4
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1867-1871

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/9/4
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7 Mar. 1849

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Elements of Venus. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Diary entries 1866

Adams/Box 39/9/3
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17 Aug. 1866-13 Sep. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to F. Bashforth

Adams/Box 4/9/3
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13 Dec. 1865

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Social. Chronograph.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to A. Cayley

Adams/Box 16/9/3
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25 Mar. 1879

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sent with 16/7/1. Asks AC to look at MS and form his own opinion. Encloses Mlle de Pontecoulant's letter to JCA, and note to her, possibly from Puiseaux [both missing].

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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