INDEX. 



ABERDEEN, application for professor- 

 ship at, pp. 247, 250. 

 Maxwell's appointment as pro 



fessor, 256. 



commencement of work, 257. 

 prepares inaugural lecture, 263. 

 work ends by amalgamation of the 



colleges, 278. 

 Adams, discovery of Neptune, 85 ; prize 



(see Saturn's rings). 

 W. G., successor to Maxwell at 



King's College, 344. 

 letter to, 384. 

 Ampere's formula, 330, 331. 



electrical investigations, 523, 525. 

 Analogies, the subject of an essay at 



Cambridge, 235. 

 Andrews, conversion of energy in 



chemistry, 335. 



Apioid, delineation of, 87, 88, 98-104. 

 Arago, 525. 

 Archery in the Happy Valley, a subject 



of youthful verse, 64. 

 Arthur's Seat, glacier markings on rocks 

 of, a novel subject of interest (in 

 1846), 73. 



employed by Professor Forbes to 

 show his class mode of barometric 

 observation, 116, 130. 

 Artisan students, class at Aberdeen, 



283, 291, 292. 

 Atoms, article on, by Maxwell, for 



Encyclopaedia Britannica, 390, 561. 

 Autobiography, the subject of an essay 

 at Cambridge, 244. 



BAKERIAN Lecture (1866) on viscosity of 

 gases, 325. 



Basket-making, an amusement in child- 

 hoodsketch by J. W., 31. 



Beauty, subject of essay at Cambridge, 

 231. 



Bell, Professor Graham (telephone), 361, 

 363. 



Benson's Manual of Colour, 346, 379. 



Berkeley's Theory of Vision, Maxwell's 



study of, 198, 207. 

 Bernoulli, allusion to his account of 



cycloidal oscillations, 226. 

 his theory of gases, 314, 332. 

 place in history of dynamics, 398 y 



560. 



Biography, thoughts about, 244. 

 Birmingham, visit to, proposed by J. C. 



M.'s father, 7 note, 185. 

 and carried out, 168. 

 Blackburn (Mrs. Hugh, ne'e Jemima 

 Wedderburn), her portrait of 

 J. C. M., 11. 

 a frequent visitor at Glenlair, in 



J. C. M.'s early days, 36. 

 her pictorial genius, 36. 

 her sketches of family groups, 5, 



30, 31, 38, 40, 42, 46, 62. 

 occupations at "Old 31," 52. 

 a picture of hers described by J. C. 



M., 270. 



Professor Hugh, his advice as to 

 Maxwell's going to Cambridge, 

 131 note, 132. 

 and in choice of a college there, 



146. 



Boltzmann, 569. 

 Boole's mathematical analysis of logic, 



113, 378. 



Brewster, Sir David, his demonstrations 

 with Wheatstone's stereoscope, 

 125. 



Maxwell's youthful debate with 



him at British Association, 144. 



at British Association (1855), 203, 



215, 216. 



British Association, Maxwell's youthful 

 appearance disputing a point 

 with Sir David Brewster, 144. 

 Maxwell present at meeting of (in 



1855), 203. 



meeting at Oxford (in 1860), 314. 

 committee on electrical standards, 

 316, 343. 



