St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 34/4/fol.76
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2 Apr. 1848

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

Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786-1853) physicist

Adams/Box 34/5/fol.81
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13 Apr. 1851

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

Sheepshanks, Richard (1794-1855) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/7/fol.97-99
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28 Mar. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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 34/13/fol.133-135
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1 Feb. 1866

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 2/34/2
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17 Mar. 1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Agrees to take on G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory if G.B.A. unable to bring it to press himself. Refers to J.C.A. to G.B.A. of 7 Jun.1883, and has further information to add on the causes of inaccuracy in the numerical coefficients.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy