174 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. [CHAP. VI. 



I must add that I spent some little time in the long 

 vacation of 1854 with Maxwell at Glenlair. His father 

 was then living, and it was touching to witness the perfect 

 affection and confidence which subsisted between father and 

 son : the joy and satisfaction and exulting pride which the 

 father evidently felt in his son's success and well-earned 

 fame ; and, on the other hand, the tender, thoughtful care 

 and watchfulness which James Maxwell manifested towards 

 his father. 



Maxwell has indeed left a very bright f memory and 

 example. We, his contemporaries at college, have seen in 

 him high powers of mind and great capacity and original 

 views, conjoined with deep humility before his God, reverent 

 submission to His will, and hearty belief in the love and 

 the atonement of that Divine Saviour who was his Portion 

 and Comforter in trouble and sickness, and his exceeding 

 great reward. I remain, my dear sir, yours very truly, 



G. W. H. TAYLER, 

 Vicar of Trinity Church, Carlisle. 



Mr. Lawson of the Equity Bar, whose diary has 

 preserved the remark quoted on p. 133, has also fur- 

 nished me with the following vivid account of his 

 impressions of Maxwell as an undergraduate : 



22 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, 

 London, W.G., 6th January 1882. 



I was in his year at Trinity, and knew him intimately, 

 though our ways separated after I left Cambridge, and I 

 scarcely ever saw him, except once or twice when he was 

 Professor at King's College, and later on only at very long 

 intervals, on an occasional visit to the University. 



There must be many of his quaint verses about, if one 

 could lay hands on them, for Maxwell was constantly pro- 

 ducing something of the sort, and bringing it round to his 

 friends, with a sly chuckle at the humour, which, though 

 his own, no one enjoyed more than himself. 



I remember Maxwell coming to me one morning with a 



