St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.109
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13 May 1856

Secular variation of the moon's mean motion. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.110
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17 Aug. 1857

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Hansen's lunar tables. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.111
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28 Oct. 1857

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Ancient eclipses. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/10/fol.113-114
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13 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Lunar acceleration. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/10/fol.117
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16 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Lunar acceleration. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/11/fol.118-120
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22 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Lunar acceleration. 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 13/30/1
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11 May 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Encloses letter of introduction from Mr. Parker of Luffingcott. Enquiry: does the Moon's secular acceleration affect the time as well as the locality of ancient eclipses. Airy's paper on the Eclipses of Agathocles & Thebes. Effect of this on calculation of ancient chronology.

Savile, Bourchier Wrey (1817-1888) Church of England clergyman and theological writer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy