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same meeting were that " On Hills and Dales," to 

 which reference will be found in the correspondence 

 (pp. 382, 383), and that " On Colour Vision at different 

 Points of the Ketina." 



The Cambridge examinations were the only cause 

 which separated him for more than a day or two from 

 Mrs. Maxwell. When most pressed with the load of 

 papers to be read, he would write to her daily 

 sometimes twice a day in letters full of " enfantill- 

 ages" as in his boyish endeavours to amuse his father, 

 telling her of everything, however minute, which, if 

 she had seen it, would have detained her eye, small 

 social phenomena, grotesque or graceful (including 

 the dress of lady friends), together with the lighter 

 aspects of the examinations ; College customs, such as 

 the " grace-cup ; " his dealings with his co-examiners, 

 and marks of honour to himself which he knew would 

 please her, though they were indifferent to him. And 

 sometimes he falls into the deeper vein, which was 

 never long absent from his communion with her, 

 commenting on the portion of Scripture which he 

 knew that she was reading, and passing on to general 

 meditations on life and duty. 



In November 1868 his old teacher, James D. 

 Forbes, had resigned the principalship of the United 

 College in the University of St. Andrew's, and an effort 

 was made by several of the professors a to induce Max- 

 well to stand for the vacant post, which was in the gift 

 of the Crown, and had been held by Brewster and 



1 It is right that I should add that the suggestion did not proceed 

 from me. L. 0. 



