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Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press & London: Associated University Press, 1995. 550 pp. ISBN 0-934223-34-3 (hardcover).
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CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Documents from Kinetic Theory to Thermodynamics
   

   Correspondence with William Thomson, G. G. Stokes, and P. G. Tait; unpublished manuscripts on equilibrium of temperature in a vertical column of gas, and publications by Maxwell and F. Guthrie; review of H. W. Watson's book on kinetic theory

3. Documents on Thermodynamics
   

   Correspondence with William Thomson, P. G. Tait, James Thomson, R. J. E. Clausius, Thomas Andrews, Mark Pattison and C. J. Munro, on demons, positivism, entropy, and dissipation of energy; unpublished manuscripts

4. Documents on the Virial Theorem & Equation of State
   

   Correspondence with P. G. Tait; unpublished manuscripts; review of thesis by J. D. Van der Waals

5. Documents on Statistical Mechanics
   

   Unpublished manuscripts and published paper on distribution of energy among molecules

6. Documents on the Radiometer & Rarified Gas Dynamics
   

   Correspondence with William Huggins, P. G. Tait, Robert Cay, William Thomson, G. G. Stokes, and Osborne Reynolds; referee reports by Maxwell on papers by William Crookes, Reynolds, Arthur Schuster; referee report by Thomson on a paper by Maxwell; unpublished drafts of paper on rarified gases.