| Collection | GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Ref No | MS 980/2 |
| Title | James Clerk Maxwell to P.G. Tait: Letter |
| Date | 15 February 1857 |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Description | Letter from James Clerk Maxwell, 129 Union St., Aberdeen to [P.G.] Tait. Answers humorously queries posed in recent letter regarding students' experiments and summarises work by senior students on Newton's Principia and the Greenwich transit circle. His treatise on Faraday's lines of force is in the press and Messrs. Smith and Ramage of Aberdeen are still constructing his brass top. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Access Conditions | The records are available subject to the signed acceptance of the Department's access conditions. |