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Box MS Add.7655/IV: Box 2

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Contains 5 Results:

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Final drafts of books, 1849-1879 (Circa, undated)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS.Add.7655/IV
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence, drafts of articles and books, notes and miscellaneous papers. The main body of papers dates from Maxwell's undergraduate years at Edinburgh University beginning in 1847, until his death in 1879. Earlier and later items relate to family papers that have accrued to the collection, though these are not extensive.)

Dates: 1849-1879 (Circa, undated)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: RESTRICTED - Use Microfilms CMO5028-CMO5042. List in catalogue
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James Clerk Maxwell, 'Theory of Heat' (London, 1871), 1849-1871 (Circa, SLP 350, 541)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS.Add.7655/IV/1
Scope and Contents

Only the following sections of the draft survive: preface, parts of chapters III-VIII, XVIII, XXI, XXII

Dates: 1849-1871 (Circa, SLP 350, 541)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: RESTRICTED - Use Microfilms CMO5028-CMO5042. List in catalogue
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James Clerk Maxwell, 'A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism', 2 vols. (Oxford, 1873), 1849-1873 (Circa, SLP 427; and SLP, vol. III: page 912n)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS.Add.7655/IV/2
Scope and Contents Only the following articles survive from what seems to be the final draft: 49-56, 108(part)-115, 186-206, 210(part)-215, 255(part), 315-316, 318(part)-349, 361(part)-365(part), 371-384(part), 445(part)-450(part), 528(part)-530(part), 530(part)-532(part), 547(part)-552(part), 553-554, 752(part), 753(part)-754(part), 764(part)-766. The backs of those from 528 on, and some sheets of an earlier draft, have be re-used by Maxwell for a draft of his paper 'On Loschmidt's experiments on the...
Dates: 1849-1873 (Circa, SLP 427; and SLP, vol. III: page 912n)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: RESTRICTED - Use Microfilms CMO5028-CMO5042. List in catalogue
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'The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish', ed. James Clerk Maxwell (Cambridge, 1879), 1849-1879 (Circa, SLP 762X)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS.Add.7655/IV/3a and IV/3b
Scope and Contents

This found in disorder and much of it is missing, including the first half of the introduction, most of articles 457-567 and 586-696, notes 5-12 and 18-35, the index from E onwards, and other shorter sections (articles 1-139 and 395-437 were probably never present in this draft but were reprinted direct from the 'Philosophical Transactions'). The backs of some of the later articles have been used for parts of a draft of 'Stresses in rarified gases' (SP XCIII).

Dates: 1849-1879 (Circa, SLP 762X)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: RESTRICTED - Use Microfilms CMO5028-CMO5042. List in catalogue
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James Clerk Maxwell, 'An Elementary Treatise on Electricity' (Oxford, 1881), posthumous ed. William Garnett, 1849-1879 (Circa, SLP 632)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS.Add.7655/IV/4
Scope and Contents

The published text omits the last 28 ff. (of the 245 ff. from the draft), which consist of material on 'the resistance of a battery' and some sheets of rough notes and calculations. 5 ff. of this omitted portion, dealing with a method of measuring resistance, have since been printed by I.B. Hopley, 'Maxwell's work on electrical resistance III', 'Annals of Science' 15 (1959), 51-55.

Dates: 1849-1879 (Circa, SLP 632)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: RESTRICTED - Use Microfilms CMO5028-CMO5042. List in catalogue