CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | PARENTAGE AND EARLY EDUCATION | [1] |
| II. | CLASSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. FIRST SCIENTIFIC PAPERS | [13] |
| III. | UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. SCIENTIFIC WORK AS UNDERGRADUATE | [23] |
| IV. | THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF ELECTRICITY IN EQUILIBRIUM. ELECTRIC IMAGES. ELECTRIC INVERSION | [33] |
| V. | THE CHAIR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AT GLASGOW. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST PHYSICAL LABORATORY | [61] |
| VI. | FRIENDSHIP WITH STOKES AND JOULE. EARLY WORK AT GLASGOW | [79] |
| VII. | THE 'ACCOUNT OF CARNOT'S THEORY OF THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT'—TRANSITION TO THE DYNAMICAL THEORY OF HEAT | [99] |
| VIII. | THERMODYNAMICS AND ABSOLUTE THERMOMETRY | [114] |
| IX. | HYDRODYNAMICS—DYNAMICAL THEOREM OF MINIMUM ENERGY—VORTEX MOTION | [153] |
| X. | THE ENERGY THEORY OF ELECTROLYSIS—ELECTRICAL UNITS—ELECTRICAL OSCILLATIONS | [176] |
| XI. | THOMSON AND TAIT'S 'NATURAL PHILOSOPHY'—GYROSTATIC ACTION—'ELECTROSTATICS AND MAGNETISM' | [194] |
| XII. | THE AGE OF THE EARTH | [229] |
| XIII. | BRITISH ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON ELECTRICAL STANDARDS | [244] |
| XIV. | THE BALTIMORE LECTURES | [254] |
| XV. | SPEED OF TELEGRAPH SIGNALLING—LAYING OF SUBMARINE CABLES—TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENTS—NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS, COMPASS AND SOUNDING MACHINE | [264] |
| XVI. | LORD KELVIN IN HIS CLASS-ROOM AND LABORATORY | [279] |
| XVII. | PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES—HONOURS AND DISTINCTIONS—LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH | [299] |
| CONCLUSION | [305] | |
| INDEX | [317] |
CORRIGENDUM
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