90 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL 



same ago, continued its progress, and ho died on 

 November 5th. His one care during his Lust illness 

 was for those whom ho left behind. Mrs. Maxwell 

 was an invalid dependent on him for everything, and 

 tho thought of her helplessness was tho ono thing 

 which in theso last days troubled him. 



A funeral service took place in tho chapel at 

 Trinity College, and afterwards his remains were con- 

 voyed to Scotland and interred in tho family burying- 

 placo at Corsoek, Kirkcudbright. 



A memorial edition of his works was issued by 

 tho Cambridge University Press in 1S90. A portrait 

 by Lowes Dickinson hangs in tho hull of Trinity 

 College, and thero is a bust by Ilnchm in tho 

 laboratory. 



After his death Mrs. Maxwell gave his scientific 

 library to tho Cavendish Laboratory, and on her 

 death sho left a sum of about 0,000 to found a 

 scholarship in Physics, to be held at the laboratory. 



The preceding pages contain some account of 

 Clerk Maxwell's life as a man of science. His 

 character had other sides, and any life of him 

 would be incomplete without some brief reference to 

 these. His letters to his wife and to other intimate 

 friends show throughout his life the depth of his 

 religious convictions. The high purpose evidenced 

 in the paper given to the present Dean of Canterbury 

 when leaving Cambridge, animated him continually, 

 and appears from time to time in his writings. Tho 

 student's evening hymn, composed in 1853 when still 

 an undergraduate, expresses the same feelings 



