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Adams/Box 2/7/1
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27 Mar. 1851

Sends tables of Errors of the Tabular Heliocentric Places of Neptune. Similar table for Saturn attached (dated 1 Feb.1847).

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/7/2
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12 May 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledges mistake in paper on Figure of the Earth, pointed out by J.C.A. Sends copies of "Suggestions for the Eclipse" and asks if J.C.A. will go to observe it.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/7/3
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8 Oct. 1851

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Urgently requests J.C.A., as President of R.A.S., to give authorisation for engravings to be made of eclipse, (for Memoirs of R.A.S.?)

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/8/2
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17 June 1853

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Encloses logarithms... for four small planets 1836-1850.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/8/1
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13 Dec. 1852

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Query on numbers for Small Planets, requested by J.C.A.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/8/3
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28 June 1853

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

On Adams's results of calculations on secular acceleration of mean motion.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/9/1
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5 July 1853

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Comments on J.C.A's paper on Moon's acceleration.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/9/2
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8 July 1853

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Further comments on J.C.A's paper on Moon's acceleration.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/9/3
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16 Mar. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Has sent paper on Eclipse of Thales. Thanks J.C.A. for paper on Secular Equation, and discusses mathematical methods employed.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/10/1
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27 Mar. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Has written to Hansen to pass on information. Query of point in J.C.A's paper on the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion.

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

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