Maxwell, James Clerk, parentage and birthplace, 10, 11; childhood and school-days, 12–18; his mother’s death, 13; first lessons in geometry, 17; attends meetings of Royal Society of Edinburgh, 18; his first published paper, 19; friendship with Professor Forbes, 19; his polariscope, 20; enters the University of Edinburgh, 22; papers on Rolling Curves and Elastic Solids, 23; vacations at Glenlair, 23; laboratory at Glenlair, 24; undergraduate life at Cambridge, 28–36; elected scholar of Trinity, 29; illness at Lowestoft, 29; his friends at Cambridge, 30; Tripos and degree, 35–37; early researches, 38–44; paper on Colours, 40, 41; elected Fellow of Trinity, 43; Lecturer at Trinity, 43; Professor at Aberdeen, 45; his father’s death, 45; gains the Adams Prize, 50; marriage, 51; powers as teacher and lecturer, 52, 53; Professor at King’s College, London, 54; gains the Rumford Medal, 55; delivers Bakerian lecture, 58; resigns Professorship at King’s College, London, 58; life at Glenlair, 58, 59; visit to Italy, 59; Examiner for Mathematical Tripos, 60, 80; elected Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge, 68; Introductory Lecture, 68–72; Examiner for Natural Sciences Tripos, 79; articles in _Encyclopædia Britannica_, 80, 118, 146; papers in Nature, 80; lectures before British Association and Chemical Society, 80–82; humorous poems, 83–87; delivers Rede Lecture on the Telephone, 89; last illness and death, 89, 90; buried at Corsock, 90; bust and portrait, 90; religious views, 91, 92 Maxwell, John Clerk, 10, 11 Meyer, O. E., 133 Mill’s Logic, 38 Molecular Evolution, Lines on, 85 ---- Physics, 94 ---- Constitution of Bodies, Maxwell on, 146 ---- Theory of Gases, 57, 108 Molecules, 109, 110; Herapath on, 112–116; lecture by Maxwell on, 146 Motion of Saturn’s Rings, subject for Adams Prize, 49 Munro, J. C., 40, 56, 68, 82 Natural Sciences Tripos, Maxwell Examiner for, 79 _Nature_, papers by Maxwell in, 80 Neumann, F. E., 156, 157 Newton’s Lunar Theory and Astronomy, 50 ---- Principia, 202 Nicol, Wm., inventor of the polarising prism, 20 Niven, W. D., 27, 46, 51, 52, 60, 78, 87, 88, 93 Obermeyer, 134 Ohm’s Law, 77 Ophthalmoscope devised by Maxwell, 83 Oval Curves, Description of, Maxwell’s first paper, 19 Parkinson, Dr., 49 _Philosophical Magazine_, 56, 99, 115, 120, 133, 142 _Philosophical Transactions_, 56, 89, 132, 145 Physical Lines of Force, Maxwell on, 56, 158 Physics, Instruction in, at Cambridge, 61; Report of Syndicate on, 62–64; Demonstrator appointed, 75 Poincaré, 216 Poisson, 44; on distribution of electricity, 155 Polariscope, made by Maxwell, 20 “Potential,” term invented by G. Green, 158; the Vector, 165, 221 Poynting, Professor, 187–189