A funeral service took place in the chapel at Trinity College, and afterwards his remains were conveyed to Scotland and interred in the family burying-place at Corsock, Kirkcudbright.
A memorial edition of his works was issued by the Cambridge University Press in 1890. A portrait by Lowes Dickinson hangs in the hall of Trinity College, and there is a bust by Boehm in the laboratory.
After his death Mrs. Maxwell gave his scientific library to the Cavendish Laboratory, and on her death she left a sum of about £6,000 to found a scholarship in Physics, to be held at the laboratory.
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The preceding pages contain some account of Clerk Maxwell’s life as a man of science. His character had other sides, and any life of him would be incomplete without some brief reference to these. His letters to his wife and to other intimate friends show throughout his life the depth of his religious convictions. The high purpose evidenced in the paper given to the present Dean of Canterbury when leaving Cambridge, animated him continually, and appears from time to time in his writings. The student’s evening hymn, composed in 1853 when still an undergraduate, expresses the same feelings—
Through the creatures Thou hast made
Show the brightness of Thy glory,
Be eternal truth displayed
In their substance transitory,
Till green earth and ocean hoary,