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In connexion with the reprint elsewhere in this issue (p. 125) of Clerk Maxwell's own abstract of his great memoir on the electrodynamic field, our attention has been directed by Sir Joseph Larmor to the valuable group of Maxwell letters that were discovered in 1903 among Stokes's private papers. They have been made public in the “Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of Sir George Stokes,” vol. 2 (1907), pp. 1–.45., published by the Cambridge University Press. They are an intimate account, reporting progress in a personal way from time to time in most of his scientific activity throughout his life. These and like collections of letters, from many of the most prominent workers of the time, all preserved by Stokes, make the two volumes an almost indispensable prolegomena to the history of discovery in physical science during the latter half of last century. A very interesting account of Maxwell's early years is contained in an obituary notice written by Tait for the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and printed in NATURE, vol. 21.
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[News and Views]. Nature 119, 132–137 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119132c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119132c0