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Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart

Adams/Box 42/17/9
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4 Dec. 1946

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Controversy with H. Spencer Jones over Airy's part in the discovery of Neptune.

Jones, Sir Harold Spencer (1890-1960) Knight, astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/17/fol.41-44
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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 33/17/fol.45-47
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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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/18/1
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4 Feb. 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Notice [in Mthly Nots. R.A.S.] on Airy's Numerical Lunar Theory.

Knobel, Edward Ball (1841-1930) chemist and astronomer

Letters to the Editor of Nature on their respective opinions of Airy's part in the Neptune controversy

Adams/Box 42/18/1-3
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7 Dec. 1946

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

No. 1 as published in Nature no. 4023 (December 7, 1946), 829-830. Nos. 2-3 galley proofs.

Jones, Sir Harold Spencer (1890-1960) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/18/2
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21 Feb. 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Airy's Numerical Lunar Theory.

Knobel, Edward Ball (1841-1930) chemist and astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/18/3
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14 June 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Forwards letter from Airy on his Numerical Lunar Theory (missing).

Knobel, Edward Ball (1841-1930) chemist and astronomer

Adams/Box 19/19/11/3
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1819-1892 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"The Addendum to Airy's paper in which he arrives at the opposite conclusion... [retardation of the Earth's rotation].

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/19/4
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9 Aug. 1862

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Invitation for CD to come to meeting of British Association in Cambridge, Oct 1862, and to stay at the Observatory. Hopes also to be entertaining Airy.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 13/2/1
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1 June (No year given.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Written from Hampstead. Submitting paper [Retardation of the Earth] to Philosophical Magazine. Turned down by Airy.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

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