St John‘s College Personal Collections

Autobiographical sketch, in JCA's own hand

Adams/Box 42/1/1
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1819-1892 (Undated.)

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph copy of letter signed to G.H. Darwin

Adams/Box 16/12/2
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25 July 1883

Acknowledges return of papers lent. Comments on proofs sent: corrections to comments on JCA's method of treating tides of long period.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph copy of letter signed to J. Challis

Adams/Box 16/11/1
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12 June 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledges copy of paper from Philosophical Magazine. Apologises for not making his criticisms clearer before. Sets them out. Regrets any offence caused; will put criticisms into writing for the Phil. Mag., as requested.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) 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 copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 2/32/3
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1 Feb. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Hansen's memoir on the perturbations of the small planets.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 2/32/2
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29 Jan. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Letter from Hansen to G.B.A. in Monthly Notices R.A.S. Nov. 8 1861. Hansen's memoir on the perturbations of the small planets: where he is wrong; where the translation is at fault.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph copy of stanza of German poem with English translation

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 25/15/6
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1819-1892 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Begins "Hier schlaft die Flur".

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to

Adams/Box 16/1/1
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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 16/6/1
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12 Dec. 1855

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledgement of paper on Hansen's theory. AC's treatment of Lunar theory by method of variation of elements is new; outlines the possible difficulties. JCA is applying this method to the secular inequalities of the moon's mean motion, further to paper in PTRS, 1853.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to A. Cayley

Adams/Box 16/6/4
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25 Jan. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledgement of copy of paper on Disturbing functions. Origin of error of Hansen's. Agrees to look at remainder of development of [omega].

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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