St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 42/16/1
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20 Mar. 1935

Enclosing copy of letter, Greenhill to MacAlister (41/16/2).

MacAlister, Edith (fl 1935-1947)

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

"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

Typescript copy of paper

Adams/Box 42/6/2
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1 Feb. 1882

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"Historical note concerning the discovery of Neptune", from Copernicus, March 1882. On D'Arrest's part in the search for Neptune made in the Berlin Observatory. Copy made for MacAlister's biography.

Dreyer, John Louis Emile (1852-1926) astronomer

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/5/1
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May 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of anonymous article on the discovery of Neptune in the North British Review Vol. 7 p.207, May 1847.

Unknown (000931)

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/4/1
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13 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of article "Account of some circumstances historically connected with the discovery of the planet exterior to Uranus", from the Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 16 p.385. [Neptune]

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

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/2/1
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26 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of article "Investigation of the rival claims of Adams and LeVerrier to the discovery of the new planet Astraea [sic]" from The Mechanics Magazine. Published under the pseudonym "Exoniensis". [Neptune]

Jerwood, James (1797-1877)

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/3/1
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13 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of article "An account of observations undertaken in search of the planet discovered at Berlin on Sept. 23, 1846", from the Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 16 p.415. [Neptune]

Challis, James (1803-1882) astronomer and physicist

Typed copy of letter to W. Godward

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/32/1
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6 May 1876

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Detailed instructions for the calculation of tables [of Jupiter's satellites?] by the Nautical Almanac Office. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Typed copy of letter to W. Godward

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/32/3
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12 June 1885

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Detailed instructions for the Nautical Almanac Office for the continuation of Damoiseau's Tables of Jupiter's Satellites. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Typed copy of letter to W. Godward

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/32/2
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9 Nov. 1876

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Detailed instructions for the calculation of tables [of Jupiter's satellites] by the Nautical Almanac Office. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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