TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 CHAPTER I 



MEMOIR PETER GUTHRIE TAIT 



Early life in Edinburgh, 1-7; life in Cambridge, 8-n; life in Belfast, 12-15; l ater ^ e m 

 Edinburgh, 16-52; Tail as lecturer, 17-22; contributions to Chambers 1 Encyclopaedia, 23; sketch 

 of literary work, 23-24; the physics of golf, 25-28; Royal Society of Edinburgh, 28-30; Kelvin's 

 visits to Edinburgh, 31-32 ; favourite authors, 33 ; social meetings, 33-34; GifTord Lectures, 35 ; 

 views on religion and politics, 35-37 ; the South African War, 37 ; retirement and last illness, 

 3941; obituary notices, 42-46; colleagues in Senatus, 46-47; portraits, 47-50; Tail Prize 

 at Peterhouse, 50; Tail Memorial, 50-51; Sir John Jackson and Sir James Dewar, 51; 

 Tail at St Andrews (contributed by J. L. Low), 52-63; "The Morning Round," 55; 

 phosphorescent golf balls, 57; theory of the golf ball flight, 59-60; "The Bulger," 61-62; 



Freddie and his Father, 63. 



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CHAPTER II 



EXPERIMENTAL WORK 



Visit to Edinburgh in 1859, 65; enthusiasm over Thomson's galvanometers and electro- 

 meters, 67-68; Vortex rings, 68-69; Sir David Brewster, 69-70; Physical Laboratory, 70-71; 

 W. Robertson Smith, 71-72; Robert Louis Stevenson, 72-74; James Lindsay, 74; Fox Talbot, 

 76; Thermoelectricity, 77-80; Crooke's Radiometer, 81-82; the "Challenger" thermo- 

 meters, 82-85 ; expansion of laboratory, 86-87 > hygrometry on Ben Nevis, 87-88 ; impact, 

 88-90; fog horns, 91; rotatory polariscope, 91-92; diathermancy of water vapour, 92-93; 



rhyming correspondence with Maxwell, 93-95 ; general estimate, 95-97. 



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CHAPTER III 



MATHEMATICAL WORK 



Brachistochrones, 99-100; Maxwell writes on spherical harmonics, 100-102; golf-match 

 problem, 102-104; Maxwell writes on vortex rings, 106 ; Knots, 106-109; Mirage, 109; 

 kinetic theory of gases, 109-113; Maxwell writes on viscosity, quaternions, entropy, the 

 Second Law, etc., 114116; golf-ball trajectory, 116-117; Josephus' problem, 118. 



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