350 PETER GUTHRIE TAIT 



as secretary and treasurer, arranged for the delivery of the lectures in the 

 Natural Philosophy Class Room of the University. This was announced 

 in a circular issued by George Barclay on February 24th immediately 

 after the second lecture ; so that it appears that all save two of the 

 lectures were given in the University. 



The lectures were not published in book form till nearly two years 

 after they were delivered. The reporter had lost his short-hand note of 

 one of them ; and Tait had to redeliver this lecture in his retiring room to 

 an audience of one. The book on Recent Advances is the only book of 

 Tail's which contains a dedication. It is in these words: "With this 

 work I desire to associate the names of George Barclay and Thomas 

 Stevenson, Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, by whose efforts 

 these Lectures were organised, and at whose wish they are published 

 as delivered. P. G. T." 



