St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/8/3
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30 Dec. 1848

Monthly Notices of the RAS. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/9/3
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29 Feb. 1848 (No year given. Suggested 1849 by the transcriber. However, this was not a leap year.)

Encloses proof of abstract for Monthly Notices of the RAS. Politics. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/11/1
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30 Mar. 1852

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Printing of address to the RAS. Printing of Catton's observations. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/12/1
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9 Dec. 1852

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Account of eclipse. Introduction to Lunar Parallax tables nearly complete. Plan for removal of RAS to Kensington. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/12/3
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14 Apr. 1853

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Failiure of application for Superintendence of Nautical Almanac. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/25/3
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12 Dec. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Elements of Flora, at Sheepshanks' request.

Hind, John Russell (1823-1895) astronomer

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 33/11/fol.4-5
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17 Dec. 1846

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 R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.4-6
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17 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.6-9
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18 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/16/fol.15-17
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17 Feb. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

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

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