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INDEX. 



Irving, John, half-brother to above, and 

 friend of Walter Scott and Lord 

 Eldin, 21 and note. 



Italy, tour with Mrs. Maxwell in, 324. 



JENKIN, Professor FLEEMING, associated 

 with Maxwell in committee of 

 British Association, for deter- 

 mining standard of electrical re- 

 sistance, 316. 

 Maxwell's correspondence with, 336. 



Joule, 335, 568. 



KELLAND, Professor, referred to on J. 



C. M.'s early paper upon ovals, 



and agreed with Professor 



Forbes as to its merit, 75. 



'his mathematical classes attended 



by Maxwell in the University of 



Edinburgh, 90, 107, 115, 116. 



reads Maxwell's paper on rolling 



curves at meeting of Royal Society, 



Edinburgh, 19th Feb. 1849, 106. 



consulted as to choice of college at 



Cambridge, 146. 

 congratulations on degree, 207. 

 Kinetic energy, 563. 

 King's College, London, Maxwell ap- 

 pointed Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy in, 278. 

 his work in this professorship, 314- 



320. 



Kirchoffs rules for electric circuits, 

 372, 399. 



LAGRANGE, 398. 



Laplace, 398, 438, 505. 



Lavater, 302. 



Leaping-pole, 34. 



Le Sage, 560. 



Leibnitz, 335, 398. 



Lenz's law, 526, 540. 



Leverrier, 85, 351. 



Liddell, Elizabeth, maternal grand- 

 mother of J. C. M., 13. 



Light, velocity of, 317, 329, 483. 



Litchfield, R. B., a college friend, cor- 

 respondence with, 207, 215, 221, 261, 

 262, 280, 304. 



Lucretius, his argument for a vacuum 

 adopted in a paper of Maxwell's, 

 written for the mental philosophy 

 class, Edinburgh University, 109,112. 



MACKENZIE, Rev. CHARLES (afterwards 

 Bishop of Natal), consulted in 

 choice of a college at Cambridge, 

 146. 



takes J. C. M. and his father to see 

 the colleges, 148. 



Mackenzie, Rev. Charles, a moderator in 

 the examination for the Mathe- 

 matical Tripos 1854, 193. 

 Colin, a cousin, present at Maxwell's 



last illness, 411, 416. 

 Frank, a college friend and con- 

 temporary of Maxwell, 169, 186, 

 193. 



Maclagan, W. D. (now Bishop of Lich- 

 field), a friend of Maxwell at Cam- 

 bridge, 203. 



Maclennan, the late J. F., one of Max- 

 well's college friends, 161, 177, 

 252. 



visits Glenlair, 263. 

 Magnetism (see Electricity). 

 Mathematics, modicum of teaching re- 

 ceived at the Edinburgh Aca- 

 demy, 68, 71. 



Professor Kelland's classes in Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, 90. 

 Matter, properties of, discussed in paper 

 written for Sir W. Hamilton's 

 class of mental philosophy, 109, 

 and motion, small book on, 374,398. 

 Matteucci, Professor, 325. 

 Maurice, Professor, Maxwell's interest 

 in controversy upon Theological 

 Essays, 171, 192, 194. 

 his working-men's college scheme 

 entered into by Maxwell, 205, 

 217, 222, 256, 260. 

 criticism of his writings, 218. 

 Maxwell, Dorothea Clerk, heiress of 

 Middlebie, great - grandmother 

 (mother of paternal grandfather) 

 of J. C. M., her betrothal and 

 marriage to her cousin George 

 Clerk, 19, 23. 



Sir George Clerk (of Penicuik and 



Middlebie), great-grandfather, in 



the direct male line, of J. C. M., 



19, 23. 



JAMES CLEEK, birth and parentage, 



2. 



childhood, 24-44. 

 boyhood Edinburgh Aca- 

 demy (Mt. 10-13), 45-65. 

 adolescence (JSt. 13-16), 66-90. 

 original work at this period 



(ovals, etc.), 91-104. 

 University of Edinburgh (Mt. 



16-19), 105-145. 

 undergraduate life at Cam- 

 bridge (Mt. 19-22), 146-196. 

 Bachelor-scholar and Fellow of 

 Trinity (1854-1856), 197- 

 222. 



Essays at Cambridge, 1853- 

 1856, 223-246. 



