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Add. MS c/111/10
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Letter from James Clerk Maxwell to [H. A. J. Munro?]
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- 7 Feb. 1866 (Creation)
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2 pp.
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Recorded as removed from shelfmark 164.c.89.2[9], a shelfmark no longer used.
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Appeals to his knowledge of Lucretius in writing about the Dynamical Theory of Gases. Also asks, as Junior Moderator, if there are Trinity men who would be able to serve as a poet for Tripos day 7th April.
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The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, ed. P. M. Harman. Cambridge University Press. Vol. II, no. 257.
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Recipient identified as Munro by Garber, Brush and Everitt eds., Maxwell on Molecules and Gases (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1986), note a, p. 83.