Item 157 - Material relating to the Clerk Maxwell Centenary Celebration

2 booklets

Presented on behalf of Dr F. G. Mann, 23 Nov. 1981.

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.