St John‘s College Personal Collections

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/14/fol.22-24
Item
7 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.

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

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/16/fol.35
Item
13 Jan. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Santini, Giovanni (1787-1877) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/16/fol.36-37
Item
21 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.

Lee, John (1783-1866) antiquary and astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/1/fol.51
Item
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 G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/17/fol.45-47
Item
29 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.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/17/fol.41-44
Item
29 Jan. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (1811-1877) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/1/fol.53-54
Item
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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/38/3
Item
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

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/2/fol.56-61
Item
28 Apr. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. 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 34/3/fol.62-64
Item
21 May 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey (1792-1871) 1st Baronet, geologist

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