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INDEX. 



British Association 



meeting at Liverpool (1870), Max- 

 well president of Section A 

 (Mathematics and Physics), 326. 



apparatus for committee on electri- 

 cal standards deposited in Caven- 

 dish Laboratory, 353. 



Bradford (1873), Maxwell's dis- 

 course on molecules, 358. 



committee for verifying Ohm's law, 

 365. 



meeting at Belfast (1874), last at- 

 tended by Maxwell, 372. 



his paraphrase of the President's 



address, 373. 



Buckle's History of Civilisation, first 

 impression of, 295. 



allusion to, 458. 



Butler, Rev. H., D.D., Head Master of 

 Harrow School, a friend of Max- 

 well at college, 168. 



his reminiscences of Maxwell, 422. 



CAMBRIDGE, causes of delay in decision 



as to entering university, 130. 

 choice of a college, 146. 

 Peterhouse fixed upon in first in- 

 stance, 146. 

 migration to Trinity in second term, 



147. 



mathematical examinations 1854, 



Maxwell second wrangler, and he 



and Eouth bracketed Smith's 



Prizemen, 176. 



Maxwell elected Fellow of Trinity, 



204. 

 essays for meetings of society at, 



223-246, also 434-463. 

 influence as examiner at, 325, 357. 

 chair of experimental physics 



founded 1871, 348. 

 Maxwell's inaugural lecture in this 



chair, 354. 



his work as professor, 364. 

 Carmichael, A. N., J. C. M.'s master in 

 Greek and Latin at Edinburgh Aca- 

 demy, 50. 



Cartesian space equations, 380. 

 Cavendish, Hon. Henry, F.E.S., his 

 electrical researches collected and 

 edited by Maxwell, 374, 375, 

 514, 555. 

 reference to this work in a letter 



of Maxwell to W. Garnett, 389. 

 Laboratory (Cambridge), Maxwell's 

 hereditary genius shown in plan- 

 ning, 9. 



Maxwell's arrangements in its 

 design and erection, 325, 

 350, 353. 



Cavendish Laboratory, Maxwell's letter 

 to the Vice-Chancellor on the subject, 

 352. 



Cay, Charles Hope, a cousin of J. C. M. , 

 his visit to Glenlair, 312. 



his correspondence with Max- 

 well, 324, 337, 341, 343. 

 Miss Jane, maternal aunt of J. C. 

 M., 13. 



letter to her from J. C. M.'s 

 parents in early days, 27. 



letter from J. C. M. (;Et. 84), 

 33. 



influence of her tastes and 



occupations, 36. 



her interest in J. C. M. 's edu- 

 cation, and letters to him as 

 a boy, 41, 44. 



her care in J. C. M. 's religious 

 education, 55. 



J. C. M. domiciled with her in 

 1844, 67. 



Maxwell's correspondence with 

 her, 169, 180, 184, 186, 

 193, 195, 208, 253, 281. 

 John (Sheriff of Linlithgow), ma- 

 ternal uncle of J. C. M., 7. 



companion of Maxwell senior, 

 at meetings of Edinburgh 

 Eoyal Society, 8, 13. 



his scientific occupations a 

 source of interest to J. C. 

 M., 67. 



accompanies J. C. M. in visit- 

 ing Mr. Nicol (inventor of 

 polariscope), 84. 



a friend of Sir W. Hamilton, 

 108. 



sends J. C. M. a " Nicol' s 



prism," 123. 



E. D., maternal uncle of J. C. M., 

 13. 



his letter to Miss Cay after 

 death of Mr. John C. Max- 

 well, 254. 



E. H., Esq., of N. Charlton, mater- 

 nal grandfather of J. C. M., 

 2, 22. 



mention of him in Lockhart s 



Life* of Scott, 13. 



William Dyce (cousin of J. C. M. ), 

 his letter describing meet- 

 ing of British Association 

 (1855), 215. 



employed by J. C.' M. to build 

 a bridge over the Urr, 323. 



his recollections of Maxwell, 



324. 



Charlton, N., Northumberland, home of 

 J. C. M. 's mother's family, 2. 



