St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 2/28/3
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19 Mar. 1884

Thanks J.C.A. for agreeing to his request (see G.B.A. to J.C.A. 11 Mar.1884). Trusts that only practical arrangements for printing will be needed.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/30/2
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14 June 1887

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

xm-1=0, or xm=1. J.C.A. has solved by investigation. G.B.A. demonstrates solution by trial substitution.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/31/3
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12 June 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Has read J.C.A's notes on G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory, and is satisfied, but has discovered major error for himself. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 11 Mar.1888).

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

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/4/1
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13 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of article "Account of some circumstances historically connected with the discovery of the planet exterior to Uranus", from the Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 16 p.385. [Neptune]

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

Copy of paper to James Challis

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

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"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 J.F.W. Herschel