Item 1/fol.1-2 - Copy of paper to James Challis

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Adams/Box 33/1/fol.1-2

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GB 275 Adams/Box 33/1/fol.1-2

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Copy of paper to James Challis

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  • 12 July 1846 (Creation)

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4p paper

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

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Astronomer Royal, 1835-81.

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"Suggestions for the examination of a portion of the heavens in search of the external planet which is presumed to exist and to produce disturbances in the motion of Uranus". [Neptune].

Transcript of RGO Archives 7/247 fol.1-4, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

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