St John‘s College Personal Collections

Autograph letter signed to F.P. White

Adams/Box 1/3/5
Item
16 Sep. 1959

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Re delivery of his Adams papers to the College.

Smart, William Marshall (1889-1975) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to F.P. White

Adams/Box 1/3/6
Item
28 Oct. 1959

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Re delivery of his Adams papers to the College.

Smart, William Marshall (1889-1975) astronomer

Autograph letter to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 1/4/1
Item
14 Mar. 1856 (No year given, year from watermark.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Will be difficult to get authorities to carry on experiments with low velocities; mentions Mr Bashforth; would be glad to get copy of Adams's pamphlet.

Sladen, Joseph [?] (fl 1856)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 1/4/2
Item
14 May 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sends Gold Medal.

Robert Sclater & Son

Unidentified scraps, mostly enclosures which have become separated from their letters

Adams/Box 1/5
Item
1800-1899 (19th century.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Various (000129)

Manuscript copies of two propositions regarding Neptune

Adams/Box 1/6
Item
1847 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

'Proposition I. The planet Neptune accounts for the previously unexplained irregularities in the motions of Uranus so perfectly that Uranus no longer indicates the probable existence of an unknown external planet or of any error in the mass of Saturn. Proposition II. Neptune is not the planet which was predicted by geometry.'

Possibly connected with the attacks by Peirce, Babinet and others on the veracity of Adams's and LeVerrier's results. Probably originally sent to Adams enclosed with a letter.

Unknown (000130)

Photographs of Newton MSS made for J.C. Adams in 1884

Adams/Box 1/portfolio
Item
1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

Adams's own drafts and copies of correspondence sent

Adams/Box 16
File
13 June 1840-2 July 1890

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to

Adams/Box 16/1/1
Item
28 Sep. 1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Description of visit to America, to scientific meetings (gave paper on Newton Mss. with photographs), and is travelling on to Prime Meridian Conference.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to A. Cayley

Adams/Box 16/10/1
Item
3 May 1881

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

JCA's health. Sends introduction to promised paper; rest to follow. ["Note on the inequality in the moon's latitude..." Monthly Notices of RAS Vol.41 (1881)]

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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