St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 39/17/1
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20 Oct. 1884

Copy of JCA's contribution to the Prime Meridian Conference, Washington, October 1884, Protocol VI, of 20 Oct. p170-172. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of paper

Adams/Box 39/16/2
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14 Mar. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"The relative position of the two heads of Biela's Comet", Monthly Notices RAS, 14 Mar. 1846. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of paper

Adams/Box 39/16/1
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25 Aug. 1877

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Vindication "of Sir Isaac Newton from the imputation of a mistake regarding the motion of the apse of the moon's orbit...". copied from the Athenaeum, 25 Aug. 1877. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of paper

Adams/Box 39/15/1
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28 July 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Description of eclipse of 1851. Copied from MS. Printed in JCA "On the total eclipse of the Sun, 28 July 1851 as seen at Frederiksvaern", Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 21 (1852). Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Liveing, George Downing (1827-1924) chemist and university administrator

Copy of poem 'Neptune's Soliloquy'

Adams/Box 39/14/2
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Nov. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Unknown (000929)

Copy of paper 'On the perturbations of Uranus'

Adams/Box 39/14/1
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1847-1851 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Copied from Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 16 (1847) or Appendix to the Nautical Almanac, 1851. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Typescript copy of report

Adams/Box 39/13/1
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12 Feb. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"Extract from Report of the Council of the General Annual Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society held 12th Feby. 1847" Copied from Monthly Notices of the RAS, Vol. 7 No. 12 p 214-217. On the award of the RAS's Gold Medal for the discovery of Neptune. Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Royal Astronomical Society

Diary entries 1890