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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/8/fol.43
Item
2 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Transcript of RGO Archives 7/247 fol.52, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

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

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/14/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 33/3/fol.14-15
Item
14 Oct. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Transcript of RGO Archives 7/247 fol.18-20, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

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

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/34/3
Item
19 Jan. 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Diplomas and Testimonials of RAS. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

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

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

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/16/4
Item
22 Sep. 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Enclosed with 9/16/3. Letter of support for Neptune as the cause of the perturbations of Uranus, against the attacks of Peirce and Babinet.

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

Note on the art of photography or the application of the chemical rays of light to the purposes of pictorial representation

Herschel/Box 1a/Document 37
Item
1839

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Photocopy of John Herschel's original MS

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

Herschel/Box 2/James 513
Item
1826 (Undated, so date is estimated.)

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Essay; 'Sound'
Essay; 'Light' (2nd half of essay - mostly sections on polarized light)
Comet orbits
Part III of 'On the Theory of the Moon'
Part I of 'Light' with doodles and a letter from Lardner.
A notebook for the section 'reflexion of light'
On letters from South

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

Herschel/Box 2/James 509
Item
1815 (Undated, so date is estimated.)

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Appendix to Lacroix (An elementary treatise on the differential and integral calculus by S. F. Lacroix, translated by Herschel from the French and printed in 1816.)

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

Herschel/Box 2/James 511
Item
1830 (Undated, so date is estimated)

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

On the Nautical Almanac (for the Board of Longitude)

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

Herschel/Box 2/James 512
Item
1813

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Mss of major part of Memoirs of the Analytical Society, Cambridge, 1813. (Not all extant)

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

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