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Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

Adams/Box 29/12/2
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1892-1919

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

DM's biography of JCA. Sampson's work on JCA's papers. Personal.

Adams, Eliza (1827-1919) wife of J.C. Adams

Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/1/1
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23 Mar. 1892

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Arrangements for improvements to No. 4 Brookside. Progress of Sampson and Glaisher on the Collected papers.

Adams, Eliza (1827-1919) wife of J.C. Adams

Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/32/3
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26 Dec. 1909

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Social. E.W. Brown's great work on the theory of the moon, and Sampson's on Jupiter's satellites.

Turner, Herbert Hall (1861-1930) astronomer and seismologist

Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/25/4
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21 Dec. 1893

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Report on progress of Sampson's work on JCA's papers on the Perturbations of Uranus.

Turner, Herbert Hall (1861-1930) astronomer and seismologist

'Manuscripts on the perturbations of Uranus by J.C. Adams 1841-1846 arranged and described by R.A. Sampson 1901'

Adams/W.16
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1841-1901

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

The contents of these MSS are described by Sampson in his article 'A description of Adams's manuscripts on the perturbations of Uranus', Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. LIV (1901), 143-170, and 20 pages are also reproduced in facsimile.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer