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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/17/4
Item
6 Dec. 1864

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Has sent in paper on Jupiter's Mass. Has received paper from Hansen.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/18/2
Item
30 Jan. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Encloses (attached) transcript of letter of Hansen 18 Oct.1861 on Lunar acceleration. G.B.A. disagrees with J.C.A. on subject.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/19/1
Item
16 Jan. 1871

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

J.C.A's lectures on the Figure of the Earth.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/19/2
Item
6 Jan. 1873

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Reply to J.C.A. of the 4th. Presidency of the R.A.S. Sends copy of letter he has written to Cayley.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/20/2
Item
3 Oct. 1873

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Requests information on Gravitational Astronomy. 1. Lunar Theory; Delaunay Theorie du mouvement de la lune Vol.2 p 803. 2. Laplace on stability of solar system.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/22/3
Item
28 Oct. 1874

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Encloses cheque for Horrocks Memorial. Regrets that J.C.A. cannot look into 8-13 Lunar inequality. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 18 Sept. 1874).

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/23/3
Item
8 Nov. 1878

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Is sending the astronomical sheets of the Greenwich vol. for 1876. Board of Visitors of R.G.O. instructed G.B.A. to consult J.C.A. on shortening the printing of results. Discusses points of detail.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/24/3
Item
12 Feb. 1880

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Thanks for J.C.A's explanation of formula (see G.B.A. to J.C.A. 10th Feb. 1880).

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/24/4
Item
10 Apr. 1880

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

G.B.A. has read paper on Lunar Acceleration before the R.A.S. Regrets that neither J.C.A. nor A. Cayley was there to hear it.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/24/5
Item
15 May 1880

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Regrets mistake about parallax in recent paper (possibly see G.B.A. to J.C.A 10 Apr.1880).

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

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