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Adams/Box 5-15/Box 15/4/3
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GB 275 Adams/Box 5-15/Box 15/4/3
Title
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
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- 20 Oct. 1888 (Creation)
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3p paper
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(1826-1896)
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Acknowledges information on transit instruments sent by JCA. Information on chronographs: will supply on the French model when seen; knows nothing about the German; has used a satisfactory model in India, which is described in the account of the Great Trigonometrical Survey.
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- Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer (Subject)