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Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer
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Copy of letter to J.C. Adams

Reply to JCA's of 12 May. Satellites of Uranus. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Lassell, William (1799-1880) astronomer

Copy of letter to H.M. Butler

GBA's opinion of the efficiency of the CO, and that its assistants are overpaid. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography. Possible that this particular copy is one made for JCA at the time of writing of the letter.

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

Typescript copy of report

"Extract from Report of the Council of the General Annual Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society held 12th Feby. 1847" Copied from Monthly Notices of the RAS, Vol. 7 No. 12 p 214-217. On the award of the RAS's Gold Medal for the discovery of Neptune. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Royal Astronomical Society

Copy of paper

Description of eclipse of 1851. Copied from MS. Printed in JCA "On the total eclipse of the Sun, 28 July 1851 as seen at Frederiksvaern", Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 21 (1852). Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Liveing, George Downing (1827-1924) chemist and university administrator

Typescript copy of article

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of anonymous article on the discovery of Neptune in the North British Review Vol. 7 p.207, May 1847.

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