St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/14/2
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26 Mar. 1855

Examinations for Civil Service appointments in India: fancies becoming an examiner. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/15/4
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8 May 1856

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Plana's agreement with JCA. Motion of moon. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/16/2
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5 July 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Social. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/13/1
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26 Dec. 1850

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

College affairs. Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/13/2
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20 June 1853

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Secular inequality of the moon's mean motion. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/14/3
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5 Apr. 1855

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Ivory's tables of refractions. Indian Civil Service examinations. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/16/1
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25 Mar. 1858

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Professorship at St. Andrews. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 12/21/1
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21 Nov. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

In French. Presumed addressed to JWL, and forwarded to JCA by him, with covering letter no longer extant: see correspondence to JCA passim. Headed "Observations sur une note de M. Adams communiquee par M. Lubbock". Attacking JCA's defence against GdP's attack on his theory of the moon.

Pontécoulant, Philippe Gustave Le Doulcet (1795-1874) Comte de

Autograph letter signed to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/41/3a
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26 Jan. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Part of JWL to JCA 27 Jan. 1854. In French. Reply to JCA's comments. The moon.

Pontécoulant, Philippe Gustave Le Doulcet (1795-1874) Comte de

Autograph letter signed to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/38/5
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22 May 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Enclosed with JWL to JCA 24 May 1848. Telescope at the Cape of Good Hope.

Sabine, Sir Edward (1788-1883) Knight, army officer and physicist

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