314 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. [CHAP. XL 



CHAPTEE XL 



KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON, 1860 TO 1865 GLENLAIK, 



1860 TO 1870 JET. 29-39. 



FROM this point onward the interest of Maxwell's 

 life (save things " where with the stranger inter- 

 meddles not ") is chiefly concentrated in his scientific 

 career. As some account of his labours in science will 

 be given in the second portion of this book, what re- 

 mains of the present narrative is comparatively brief. 

 1860-1865. The work at King's College was more exacting 



ML 29-34. 



than that in Aberdeen. There were nine months of 

 lecturing in the year, and evening lectures to artisans, 

 etc., were recognised as a part of the Professor's 

 regular duties. Maxwell retained the post until the 

 spring of 1865, when he was succeeded by Professor 

 W. Gr, Adams, but continued lecturing to the working 

 men during the following winter. 



In June 1860 Maxwell attended the British 

 Association's meeting at Oxford, where he exhibited 

 his box for mixing the colours of the spectrum. He 

 also presented to Section A a most important paper 

 on Bernoulli's Theory of Gases ; a theory which sup- 

 poses that a gas consists of a number of independent 

 particles moving about among one another without 



