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Draft? autograph letter to Richard Sheepshanks or J.F.W. Herschel

Adams/Box 16/59/1
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25 Oct. 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Incomplete. Addressee not identified: probably either Sheepshanks or Herschel. JCA gives permission for note refuting Pierce to be sent. Origin of the value of mean distance of Neptune, used in calculations of perturbations of Uranus.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/14/1
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13 Dec. 1858

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Greetings on becoming Professor. Information that money from Sheepshanks donation is available for astronomical research.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/16/2
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16 Jan. 1862

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

£2000 from Sheepshanks benefaction available for use of Observatory. What would J.C.A. wish to see it spent on.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, 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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/35/3
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4 Feb. 1862

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Thanks, on behalf of Committee, for examining for the Sheepshanks exhibition.

Whewell, William (1794-1866) Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 33/11/fol.4-5
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17 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 33/9/fol.51
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23 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.1-2
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12 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

Hind, John Russell (1823-1895) astronomer

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.10
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19 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

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