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===By Adams=== *Adams, J.C., ed. W.G. Adams & [[Ralph Allen Sampson|R. A. Sampson]] (1896β1900) ''The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams'', 2 vols, London: Cambridge University Press, with a memoir by [[James Whitbread Lee Glaisher|J.W.L. Glaisher]]: **Vol. 1 (1896) Previously published writings;<ref>{{cite journal|author=Brown, Ernest W.|author-link=Ernest William Brown|title=Review: ''The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams'', Vol. I, ed. by W.G. Adams, with a memoir by J.W.L. Glaisher|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|date=1897|volume=3|issue=6|pages=225β227|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1897-00404-9|doi-access=free}}</ref> **Vol. 2 (1900) Manuscripts including the substance of his lectures on the Lunar Theory.<ref name =Brown1901>{{cite journal|author=Brown, Ernest W.|title=''The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams'', Vol. II, Part 1 ed. by R.A. Sampson, Part 2 ed. by W.G. Adams|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|date=1901|volume=7|issue=6|pages=272β278|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1901-00798-7|doi-access=free}}</ref> *Adams, J.C., ed. R.A. Sampson (1900) [https://archive.org/details/lecturesonlunar01sampgoog ''Lectures on the Lunar Theory''], London: Cambridge University Press<ref name="Brown1901"/> *A collection, virtually complete, of Adams's papers regarding the discovery of Neptune was presented by Mrs Adams to the library of St John's College, see: Sampson (1904), and also: **"The collected papers of Prof. Adams", ''Journal of the British Astronomical Association'', '''7''' (1896β97) **''Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'', '''53''' 184; **''Observatory'', '''15''' 174; **''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', '''34''' 565; '''45''' 301; **''Astronomical Journal'', No. 254; **R. Grant, ''History of Physical Astronomy'', p. 168; and **''[[Edinburgh Review]]'', No. 381, p. 72. *The papers were ultimately lodged with the Royal Greenwich Observatory and evacuated to [[Herstmonceux Castle]] during World War II. After the war, they were stolen by [[Olin J. Eggen]] and only recovered in 1998, hampering much historical research in the subject.<ref name="eggen">{{cite web | author=Kollerstrom, N. | date=2001 | url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/nk/neptune/takes.htm | title=Eggen takes the papers | work=The British Case for Co-prediction | publisher=University College London | access-date=23 August 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206110748/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/nk/neptune/takes.htm | archive-date=6 February 2005 }}</ref>
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