St John‘s College Personal Collections

Various notes

Adams/Box 42/13
Item
1946 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Notes on Adams, Le Verrier, Airy, Challis.

Smart, William Marshall (1889-1975) astronomer

Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart

Adams/Box 42/17/1
Item
19 Nov. 1946

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Controversy with H. Spencer Jones over Airy's part in the discovery of Neptune.

Sadler, Donald Harry (1908-1987) astronomer and mathematician

Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart

Adams/Box 42/17/9
Item
4 Dec. 1946

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Controversy with H. Spencer Jones over Airy's part in the discovery of Neptune.

Jones, Sir Harold Spencer (1890-1960) Knight, astronomer

Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart

Adams/Box 42/17/6
Item
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

Statement of events concerned with the deposit of the paper on the New Planet [Neptune] with Airy in Oct. 1845

Adams/Box 20/20/23/2
Item
1847-1848 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Note at head in Mrs A's hand "Memoranda given to E.A. for Mr Spencer". See Edward Spencer to JCA 10 Dec. 1847 and 8 Jan. 1848 ( 14/15/2-3).

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Printed poem

Adams/Box 20/20/12/1
Item
14 Feb. 1875

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Poem "To a friend." "Apt not to test, but to pooh - pooh..." Refers to Adams, Airy and Neptune.

Cassandra (fl 1875)

Paper

Adams/Box 19/19/11/3
Item
1819-1892 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"The Addendum to Airy's paper in which he arrives at the opposite conclusion... [retardation of the Earth's rotation].

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Notes relating to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 42/15/1-2
Item
1946 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

'Extracts to be used in Airy's correspondence', 'Notes'.

Smart, William Marshall (1889-1975) astronomer

List of correspondence about Neptune

Adams/Box 33/1
Item
1893-1894 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Copied from Airy's files in the RGO Archives for D. MacAlister 1893-1894.

Unknown (000916)

Letters to the Editor of Nature on their respective opinions of Airy's part in the Neptune controversy

Adams/Box 42/18/1-3
Item
7 Dec. 1946

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

No. 1 as published in Nature no. 4023 (December 7, 1946), 829-830. Nos. 2-3 galley proofs.

Jones, Sir Harold Spencer (1890-1960) Knight, astronomer

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