St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 33/1/fol.1-2
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12 July 1846

"Suggestions for the examination of a portion of the heavens in search of the external planet which is presumed to exist and to produce disturbances in the motion of Uranus". [Neptune].

Transcript of RGO Archives 7/247 fol.1-4, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

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

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/1/fol.3-4
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18 July 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Transcript of RGO Archives 7/247 fol.5-8, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Challis, James (1803-1882) astronomer and physicist

Copy of letter to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 34/1/fol.48-50
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1 Feb. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

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

Copy of letter to Robert Main

Adams/Box 33/1/fol.5
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7 Sep. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Transcript of RGO Archives 7/247 fol.9, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/1/fol.51
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23 Jan. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Struve, Otto Wilhelm (1819-1905) astronomer

Copy of letter to U.J.J. Le Verrier

Adams/Box 34/1/fol.52
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28 Feb. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

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

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/1/fol.53-54
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12 Mar. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. In German. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Hansen, Peter Andreas (1795-1874) astronomer

Copy of letter to Eliza Adams

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 35/10/1
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17 Jan. 1869

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

News of Cambridge during vacation. Visit of Edward Bushby to St John's. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks