LIFE AND SCIENTIFIC WORK 



OF 



PETER GUTHRIE TAIT 



SUPPLEMENTING THE TWO VOLUMES 

 OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PUBLISHED IN 



l8g8 AND 



by 

 CARGILL GILSTON KNOTT 



D.Sc. ; one of the Secretaries R.S.E. ; Order of the Rising Sun, Empire of Japan (Class IV) ; 



Assistant to Professor Tail from 1879 to 1883; Professor of Physics, Imperial University of Japan 



from 1883 to 1891 ; Lecturer on Applied Mathematics in Edinburgh University from 1892 



Cambridge : 



at the University Press 

 1911 



