St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 2/5/2
Item
17 Mar. 1849

J. Jerwood has applied for membership of R.A.S., supported by J.C.A. Believed author of article derogatory to G.B.A. in Mechanics Mag. G.B.A. seeks explanation.

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

Copy of letter to A. De Morgan

Adams/Box 34/18/2
Item
17 Mar. 1849

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. James Jerwood. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/5/3
Item
20 Mar. 1849

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

J. Jerwood's unfitness for membership of R.A.S.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/6/1
Item
15 Feb. 1850

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Approval of J.C.A's proposition for a Normal Catalogue. Comments on J.C.A's remarks on details in catalogue.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/6/2
Item
25 Mar. 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"Physical astronomy as a national question". Suggestion of publication of theories and tables. G.B.A. approves.

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

Copy of letter to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 34/5/fol.77
Item
25 Mar. 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Publication of planetary tables and theories as national project. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/7/1
Item
27 Mar. 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sends tables of Errors of the Tabular Heliocentric Places of Neptune. Similar table for Saturn attached (dated 1 Feb.1847).

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

Copy of letter to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 34/5/fol.80
Item
11 Apr. 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Publication of planetary tables and theories as national project. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/7/2
Item
12 May 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledges mistake in paper on Figure of the Earth, pointed out by J.C.A. Sends copies of "Suggestions for the Eclipse" and asks if J.C.A. will go to observe it.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/7/3
Item
8 Oct. 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Urgently requests J.C.A., as President of R.A.S., to give authorisation for engravings to be made of eclipse, (for Memoirs of R.A.S.?)

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

Narrow your results by:

Creator

Name

Level of description

Showing 168 results