CONTENTS

PART I.—BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Birth and Parentage 1
Note.—The Clerks of Penicuik and Maxwells of Middlebie 16
CHAPTER II.
Glenlair—Childhood—1831-1841 24
CHAPTER III.
Boyhood—1841-1844 45
CHAPTER IV.
Adolescence—1844-1847 66
Note.—Oval and Meloid 91
CHAPTER V.
Opening Manhood—1847-1850 105
CHAPTER VI.
Undergraduate Life at Cambridge—1850-1854 146
CHAPTER VII.
Bachelor-Scholar and Fellow of Trinity—1854-1856 197
CHAPTER VIII.
Essays at Cambridge—1853-1856 223
CHAPTER IX.
Death of his Father—Professorship at Aberdeen—
1856-1857		 247
CHAPTER X.
Aberdeen—Marriage—1857-1860 274
CHAPTER XI.
King’s College, London—Glenlair—1860-1870 314
CHAPTER XII.
Cambridge—1871-1879 348
CHAPTER XIII.
Illness and Death—1879 406
CHAPTER XIV.
Last Essays at Cambridge 434
PART II—CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE.
1. Experiments on Colour Vision, and other Contributions
to Optics		 465
2. Investigations respecting Elastic Solids 491
3. Pure Geometry 496
4. Mechanics 498
5. Saturn’s Kings 501
6. Faraday’s Lines op Force, and Maxwell’s Theory of
the Electromagnetic Field, including the
Electromagnetic Theory op Light, and other
Investigations in Electricity		 513
7. Molecular Physics 559
PART III.—POEMS.
1. Juvenile Verses and Translations 577
2. Occasional Pieces 593
3. Serio-Comic Verse 609
INDEX 653 653