Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart
- Adams/Box 42/16/8
- Item
- 4 Sep. 1946
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Centenary celebrations of discovery of Neptune.
Sadler, Donald Harry (1908-1987) astronomer and mathematician
Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Centenary celebrations of discovery of Neptune.
Sadler, Donald Harry (1908-1987) astronomer and mathematician
Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Comments on Smart's essay on JCA.
Addey, John Michael (1920-1982) astrologer
Typescript letter signed to St John's College Library
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Letter accompanying gift of papers (now Box 27) to SJC.
Royal Aeronautical Society
Typescript letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Opinion on distribution of unpublished copies of planetary work.
Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) astronomer
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
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 letter to the Editor of the Standard, in reply to letter of J.F. Tennant
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Made for MacAlister's biography of Adams.
MacAlister, Sir Donald (1854-1934) 1st Baronet, physician and medical administrator
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)
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
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)