Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . gh,andafterwards at Cambridge,Maxwell graduated in 1854, taking the position of SecondWrangler. His original investigations began whilst he was stillin his teens, when he contributed papers to the Royal Society ofEdinburgh on Rolling C^urves, and on The Equilibrium ofElastic Solids. Whilst an undcrgrailuate at Cambridge hedevoted himself more to research tlian to working for the was during this per
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . gh,andafterwards at Cambridge,Maxwell graduated in 1854, taking the position of SecondWrangler. His original investigations began whilst he was stillin his teens, when he contributed papers to the Royal Society ofEdinburgh on Rolling C^urves, and on The Equilibrium ofElastic Solids. Whilst an undcrgrailuate at Cambridge hedevoted himself more to research tlian to working for the was during this period that he carefully studied Faradaysoriginal papers. His inclination was always to study mathe-matics as a means whereby to express his ideas on physicalsubjects rather than as an end in itself His private tutor,William Hopkins, said of him: It is not possible for that manto think incorrectly on physical subjects. PHYSICS, iS4r,-isS5 709 In JIaxwell wrote a matlieiiiatical paper on Lines oiForce, expressing the Faraday line of force in niatheniaticallanguage, and still tnrther developing the idea. In (j he wasappointed to the chair of Natural Thilosophy at the Marischal. IKOFESSOR JAMKS CLERK JIAXWKLL. (From the ]i»intinij btj Lowes Dickinson in the Hall of Trinitf/ College, Cambridge.) College, Aberdeen. The .same year he gained tlic EssayPrize with a on The Rings of Saturn. in which heshowed that Saturns rings could not, consistently wiih stabilityof structure, be either solid or liquid, but nmst be of the natureof streams of meteorites i-evolving round the planet. About thesame time he invented the •dynamical top to illustrate certainproblems in dynamics. In IStJO he read a paper at a meetingof the British Association on The Kinetic Theor\- of Gases,which supposes a gas to consist of myriads of particles jostling 71U THE SDCGESSJON OF THE DEMOCRACY. against each other. The theoiy is consistent with the ex-perimental laws of gases, and gives an
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