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INDEX. 



Edinburgh University, Maxwell's en- 

 trance at, 105. 

 Edison's loud-speaking telephone, 363. 



phonograph, 455. 



Elastic solids, Maxwell's investigations 

 on, 106, 126, 127, 133, 465, 491, 491- 

 496. 



Elasticity, a subject of lectures at Aber- 

 deen, 295, 301. 

 Eldin (see Clerk, John). 

 Electricity, a subject of Maxwell's study 

 while at Edinburgh University, 

 106, 118, 120. 

 resumed immediately after the 



Cambridge degree, 199, 204. 

 a subject of lectures at Aberdeen, 



291, 302. 



Maxwell a member of committee 

 (British Association) for deter- 

 mining standard of resistance, 

 316. 



Maxwell's comparison of electro- 

 magnetic and electrostatic units, 

 317, 336, 337, 545. 

 Maxwell's great work on, takes 



shape 1866-1870, 320. 

 general mathematical propositions 



relating to, 330. 



instrument for measuring effects 

 of, through different media, 

 334. 



one of the primary objects of the 

 chair of experimental physics at 

 Cambridge, 350. 



Maxwell appointed one of com- 

 mittee of British Association for 

 verifying Ohm's law. Keported 

 at Glasgow 1876, 365. 

 publication of book on electricity 



and magnetism, 374. 

 various work relating to, 375. 

 posthumous work on, 288 note, 354. 

 synthetical account of Maxwell's 

 contributions to science of, 513- 

 559. 

 Electromagnetic field, 550. 



machines, seen by J. C. M. in 1842, 



52. 



theory of light, 340-342. 

 . units, 336. 



Ellicott, C. J., Bishop of Gloucester, 

 his correspondence with Maxwell, 

 392-396. 

 Energy, conversion and conservation of, 



335, 438. 



Everitt, Professor, member of committee 

 of British Association on Ohm's Law, 

 365. 



Examination system at Cambridge, 325, 

 356. 



Experimental physics, chair of, 348. 



inaugural lecture, 354. 



work of, 364 et seq. 

 Extension (Spinoza), 380. 



(Descartes), 436. 



Eye, lecture to operatives on, at Aber- 

 deen, 264. 



FARADAY, MICHAEL, reference to his 

 experiments upon table-turning, 

 189. 



Maxwell's early interest in his in- 

 vestigations, 199 note. 



his lines of force, the subject of a 

 lecture by Maxwell 1855-56, 199, 

 204, 222, 256. 



his letters to Maxwell, 288, 519. 



reference to his style, 305. 



at Maxwell's lecture Royal Insti- 

 tution (1861), 319, 528. 



his Electrical Researches carefully 

 studied by Maxwell, 513, 516. 



his discovery of magnetic induction, 



525. 



Farrar, Rev. F. W. (Canon of Westmin- 

 ster), a friend of Maxwell as an 

 undergraduate at Cambridge, 168, 182, 

 200. 



Fluid displacement, 346. 

 Foramen centrale, phenomena of, 315. 

 Forbes, Professor James D., his early 

 recognition of J. C. M.'s genius, 

 74, 75. 



reads paper of J. C. M. at Royal 

 Society, Edinburgh, 76. 



his lifelong friendship with J. C. 

 M., 79. 



his natural philosophy class in the 

 University of Edinburgh, 90, 

 114, 115, 116, 124, 127. 



his advice as to Maxwell's going to 

 Cambridge, 131 note, 132. 



his suggestions as to paper (on 

 elastic solids) for the Royal 

 Society, 137. 



advises Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 146. 



correspondence upon colours, 213, 

 214. 



suggestion as to Aberdeen profes- 

 sorship and joining the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, 250. 



letter upon Maxwell's appointment 

 and on his father's death, 256. 



letter upon professorial work, 266. 



vacates chair of Natural Philosophy 

 at Edinburgh, 277. 



letter on Saturn, etc., 307. 



resignation of principalship, St. 

 Andrews, 327, 345. 



