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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/16/3
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22 Sep. 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sends copy of letter to Leverrier [9/16/4]. Leverrier, Neptune. Dr. Nicols book on Neptune. Airy's Gravitation.

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/29/4
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24 Nov. 1852

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Name for latest planet: Clio?: Mr. Airy and Mr. George Bishop's opinions.

Hind, John Russell (1823-1895) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/36/4
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5 May 1879

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Meeting to discuss the Astronomer Royal's resolutions regarding Sadler's accusations of Smyth.

Hind, John Russell (1823-1895) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/18/1
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4 Feb. 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Notice [in Mthly Nots. R.A.S.] on Airy's Numerical Lunar Theory.

Knobel, Edward Ball (1841-1930) chemist and astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/20/4
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13 Apr. 1889

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Corrections to Airy's paper in vol.40 of Mthly Nots. of R.A.S. ("Enclosed" now missing).

Knobel, Edward Ball (1841-1930) chemist and astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 11/34/2
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25 Feb. 1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Airy's numerical lunar theory.

Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 12/27/1
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17 Apr. 1877

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Newton and Airy on the moon. Winnecke's Comet. Comets.

Pritchard, Charles (1808-1893) headmaster and 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

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 2/33/1
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15 Oct. 1873

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Explanation of how G.B.A. has misunderstood Delaunay's lunar formula. Agrees about stability of solar system. Would like to see model of transit of Venus.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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