INDEX 



Names of individuals are indexed in heavy type; names of books in italic. 



Absolute Temperature, 226, 228 



Absorption Line doubled by magnetism, 90 



Academy, Edinburgh, 3 



Action and time in planet's orbit, 100 



Action, Theory of, 99 



Address, illuminated, to Tait on his retirement, 39 



Address to Graduates, 11, 247-251 



Addresses, etc., 246-295 



Adiathermancy of ozone, projected experiments, 68 



Airy, G. B., on differential notation, criticised by 



Hamilton, 121 



Alban and Nabla, Maxwell on, 244-245 

 Alexander, Hugh and Pat, at St Andrews, 54 

 Amagat, E.-H., on Tail's electric contact, 85 

 Ampere, J. J. A., repulsion of current on itself, 

 66-67 ; electrodynamics by quaternions, 138 ; 

 electricity and magnetism, 259, 297 

 Anagram heralds The Unseen Universe, 237 

 Andrews, Thomas, experiments with Tait, 12 ; 

 influence on Tait, 13; letter to, 22; at St 

 Andrews, 56 ; letters to, on experimental 

 preparations, 64-66, about new laboratory, 70, 

 on thermoelectricity, 76-78 ; introduces Tait to 

 Hamilton, 119; letters to, about "T and T'," 

 177-179 ; president of Brit. Ass. in 1876, 252 

 Andrews, Mrs, Tail's letter to, 13 

 Andrews, Misses, supply letters to their Father, 



22, 177 



Angstrom, A. J., thermal conduction, Si 

 Arago, F. J. D., quoted, 305, 312 ; on fire-balls, 



313 



Archimedes, 52 



Arnold, Matthew, classed by Herbert Spencer with 

 Tait as possessing mental idiosyncrasies, 285 



Art of Golf, 59 



Artificial Selection, article in Macmillan's Maga- 

 zine, 248 



Artillery, Russian Review of, contains translation 

 of Kinetic Theory of Gases, 25 



Assurance, Life, Tail's interest in, 24-25 



Astronomy, HerschePs, used as texl-book, 20 



Astronomy, Cosmical, articles in Good Words, 



24, 246, 252 ; lectures in Museum to Industrial 



Classes, 24, 252 



Athenaeum reviews "T and T'," 186 

 Atmomeler, used as hygrometer, 87-88 

 Atmospheric Electricity, 184, 298-299 ; source of, 



315 ; connection with Aurora, 320 

 Atmospheric Instability, 319 

 Atom, Vortex, of Thomson, 68-69, 105-106, 177 

 Aurora and atmospheric electricity, 320 

 Authors, Tail's favourile, 33 



Babinet, J., on fire-balls, 313 



Badminton Magazine, article on Long Driving, 



28, 58, 90, 329-344 

 Bain, A., " Logic " reviewed, 247 

 Balfour, James, at St Andrews, 56 

 Balfour, J. H., secretary of Royal Society of 



Edinburgh, 28, 149 

 Ballistic pendulum for measuring speed of golf 



balls, 89, 337 

 Barclay, George, 349-350 

 Barrie, J. M., description of Tait lecturing, 17 ; 



description of " Little T and T', 1 ' 201 

 Bashforth, F., tables of air resistance, 26 ; 



resistance of the air, 336 

 Baynes, T. S., editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 



291 

 Becket, Sir Edmund, book on the origin of the 



laws of nature reviewed, 284 

 Belfast, Tait in, 12-15 

 Bell, Beatson, schoolmate and secretary of the 



Gumming Club, 9 

 Bennett, Hughes, experiments on eleclrical effects 



in muscles, 65 

 Berkeley, G., objective and subjective, 19 ; referred 



to by Maxwell in connection with Torricelli, 



195 

 Bertrand, J., criticises Helmholtz, 115 ; criticises 



Maxwell's Law, 1 16 

 Bethune at St Andrews, 56 

 Big Gun, The, 86, 96 

 Biot, J. B., on mirage, 322 



