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my absence will not delay the assumption of W. D. 

 Maclagan. 1 He has been here all the vacation, if not there 

 and everywhere. The foundation of Ethics, though it may 

 have tickled my core, has not germinated at my vertex. 

 Whether it will yet be laid bare, either as a paradox or a 

 truism, is more than I can tell. Perhaps it may be a 

 pun. . . . 



I have now to do a little cooking and buttling, in the 

 shape of toast and beef-tea and everfizzing draught. . . .'.- 

 Does Pomeroy flourish, and has he Crimean letters still ? 



It was only because his father insisted on his 

 doing so that he returned to Cambridge at all at this 

 time. 



At the meeting of the British Association, held at ^t. 24. 

 Glasgow in September 1855, Maxwell was present 

 when Brewster made an attack on Whe well's optical 

 theories, but he followed the example of the Master 

 of Trinity, who was present, in saying nothing. He 

 exhibited his Colour -Top, however, the same after- 

 noon, by appointment, at Professor Ramsay's house, 

 where Brewster had been expected, but did not appear. 

 Maxwell at the same time renewed his intercourse 

 with Dr. George Wilson, the Edinburgh Professor of 

 Technology, whose likeness hung beside that of 

 Forbes in his rooms at Trinity. Wilson brought out 

 immediately afterwards a little book on Colour Blind- 

 ness, in which the substance of his conversations with 

 Maxwell is recorded. 



In October he gained his fellowship at Trinity. 1855 - 

 It was his second trial, and his name appeared as one 



1 Now Bishop of Lichfield. Maxwell had recommended him for 

 co-optation by the "Apostles'" Club. 



