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Add. MS a/248/157
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Material relating to the Clerk Maxwell Centenary Celebration
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- 1931 (Creation)
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2 booklets
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Presented on behalf of Dr F. G. Mann, 23 Nov. 1981.
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Booklet, Handbook for the Clerk Maxwell Centenary Celebration to accompany the celebrations at the University of Cambridge 1 and 2 October, 1931, with a photogravure of Maxwell by Emery Walker Ltd., and images of Glenlair House, a colour top, colour house, spinning coil, apparatus for experiments on the viscosity of gasses, and the outside of the Cavendish Laboratory. Accompanied by a memorial booklet of two photogravures, of Maxwell as a young man with a colour top, and as an older man.
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- Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879), physicist (Subject)
- Emery Walker Ltd. (Subject)