St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 34/5/fol.78-79
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10 Apr. 1851

Publication of planetary tables and theories as national project. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.106-107
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8 May 1856

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Secular variation of the moon's mean motion. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/10/fol.117
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16 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/11/fol.122-123
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17 June 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/14/1
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15 Oct. 1873

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to H.M. Butler

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/10/3
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16 Mar. 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Application for grant of money for the Observatory: counter to GB Airy's objections that the CO assistants are overpaid. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography. Possible that this particular item is JCA's own file copy.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to D. MacAlister

Adams/Box 42/16/2
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10 Sep. 1916

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Enclosed with 41/16/1. Airy's and Babbage's autobiographies.

Greenhill, Sir Alfred George (1847-1927) Knight, mathematician

Autograph letter signed to W.M. Smart

Adams/Box 42/17/5
Item
25 Nov. 1946

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Controversy with H. Spencer Jones over Airy's part in the discovery of Neptune.

Sadler, Donald Harry (1908-1987) astronomer and mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/23/1
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14 Nov. 1864

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Kew O. magnetic observations. Airy now sent Glaisher to check Kew's methods. Kew vindicated. Encloses copies of correspondence with Airy: to be returned. [not present]

Sabine, Sir Edward (1788-1883) Knight, army officer and physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/38/3
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13 Mar. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Proceedings of previous day's meeting of R.A.S. Airy's objections to lack of accurate orbit [of Neptune]. Means of calculating that orbit. On the nature of scientific discovery. Regrets that JCA does not have means to exclude LeVerrier from a share in the credit of discovery of Neptune.

Sheepshanks, Richard (1794-1855) astronomer

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