St John‘s College Personal Collections

Autograph letter signed to Charles Taylor

Adams/Box 30-32/Box 32/5/1
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26 Feb. 1892

Subscription Adams Memorial Committee.

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/46/2
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4 July 1867

Corrections of JCA's to be adopted, or not, in paper and value of earth's retardation supplied to be acknowledged. Source of Thomson's error as to value of earth's retardation. [Probably associated with BAAS's Cttee. for Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observations]

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/46/3
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5 July 1867

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Corrections to letter of previous day (14/46/3). [Probably associated with BAAS's Cttee. for Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observations]

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/46/1
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28 Oct. 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Encloses some letters from LeVerrier, brought back from Paris, which LeVerrier gave to be passed on to JCA. The attack on LeVerrier by Babinet appeared to be inspired by party feeling.

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/48/2
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25 Dec. 1882

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Encloses some sheets of Pt. 2 of Thomson and Tait's Natural Philosophy containing valuable contributions by George Darwin. High opinion of Darwin; would make excellent Plumian Professor. (Sheets possibly those at 44/6/2).

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/48/3
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21 May 1883

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Discussion of question 12 of JCA's most recent Smith's Prize paper.

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/45/1
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12 Nov. 1880

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Corrections and additions made to pamphlet "The safe landfall" in response to suggestions by JCA.

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/45/2
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25 Mar. 1881

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Quite ashamed of the additions sent to previous letter: now encloses a much better appendix for his pamphlet for JCA's comments.

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Autograph postcard signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/49/2
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26 Aug. 1876 (Year attributed from obscured postmark and context.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

The proofs sent previously are in worse mess than anticipated: instructions as to which sections to correct. [possibly see 14/47/3]

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

Letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/47/2
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15 Apr. 1876

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Question raised by Peters and Maxwell regarding periodic change of latitude in a period of 306 days should be fully investigated. Wishes to know whether any recent work has been done on the subject, and if not asks JCA to undertake it quickly so that results may be available for 2nd ed. of Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy]

Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist

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