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INDEX 



Black, Joseph, work on heat, 218 



Blackie, John Stuari, stories concerning, 46 



Blackwell, Dr, al Si Andrews, 55 



Blaikie, W. B., designs The New Amphion, 73 



Boisbaudran, F. Lecoq, supplied thermoelectric 



material, 78 



Boltzmann, L., Kinetic theory of gases, 1 1 1 

 Bolzani, T., of Kasan, helps "T and T'," 188 

 Books, Tail's published, 205-245 

 Boole, G., referred to by Tail, 127 

 Borthwick, Lord, al Si Andrews, 56 

 Bouch, Sir Thomas, engineer of Tay Bridge, 279 

 Boyle and Marriotte, 225-226, 230 

 Boys, C. V., lanlern leclure in Tail's drawing 



room, 34 



Brachistochrones, Tail's work on, 99 

 Brebner, A., experiments on eleclrolysis, 76 

 Brescia powder magazine exploded by lighlning, 



Brewster, Sir David, 69 



British Associalion, Tail presideni of Seclion A, 

 1871, 24 ; meelings of 1871, 1892, 33, 34 ; report 

 on Ihermal conduclion, 81 ; meeling of 1882, 92 ; 

 meeling of 1872, npie on plane curves, 105 ; 

 meeting of 1871, Maxwell writes Tyndallic ode, 

 171 ; meeling of 1874, Maxwell's description, 

 173, 174 ; proposed report on qualernions, 152 ; 

 meeting of 1874 at Belfast, 236; meeting of 

 1876 at Glasgow, lecture on Force, 252 



British Quarterly Review, criticism of Herbert 

 Spencer's First Principles, 278-283 



Brougham, Lord, referred to in lecture on Force, 



2S3 



Brown, Rev. Canon Cowley, 40 

 Brown, A. Crum, 41 ; phosphorescent golf balls, 



57; preparation of pure cobaltfor ihermoeleclric 



work, 78-79 ; discontinuities in organ notes, 



91 ; at St Andrews, 197 ; tells Tail of Mohr, 



212 ; lectures to Industrial Classes, 252 ; 



Iranslates Helmholtz's reply to Zollner, 256 

 Bruntsfield Links, Golf al, 23, 54 

 Buchan, Alexander, consulls Tail, 51 ; Ben Nevis 



Observatory, 87 ; leclures to Industrial Classes, 



252 



Buchanan, J. Y., compressibility apparatus, 83 

 Budget of Paradoxes, de Morgan's, reviewed, 



257-258 



" Bulger, The," verses by Tail, 61, 62 

 Bunsen, R. W., specirum analysis, 227 

 Burbury, S. H., on kinelic theory of gases, 



in 



Burnett Lectures by Stokes, reviewed, 266-269 

 Burnside, W., reads proofs of " T and T," second 



edilion, 203 

 Byron, Lord, Tail's favourite poet, 33 ; description 



of thunderstorm, 298 



Calendar, Edinburgh University, reference lo "T 

 and T', 1 ' 197 



Gallon Hill, McFaii's experimenls on almospheric 

 eleclricily on, 307-308 ; fire-ball seen al, 314 



Cambridge career, 8-n ; orchestra, 12 



Campbell, Lewis, al Edinburgh Academy, 5 ; Life 

 of Maxwell, 171, 242; al ihe Evening Club, 

 348 



Capacily, eleclrical, 303 



Carnot, N. L. S., pioneer in iheory of heat and 

 energy, 208, 209 ; cycle of operalions and 

 perfect reversible engine, 218, 226; function 

 of, 221 ; his Principle expounded in Recent 

 Advances, in Unseen Universe, elc., 227, 237, 

 241 



Cassio, "a greal arilhmelician," 151 



Caslle Hill, McFaii's experiments in atmospheric 

 electricity on, 307-308 



Castor and Pollux, electrical phenomenon, 306 



"Cat's Cradle Song" by Maxwell, 108-109 



Catenary models al Edinburgh University, 7 



Cathode Rays, velocity of charged particles, 91 



Cauchy, A. L., referred to by Hamilton and Tail, 

 121, 122 



Cayley, A., 33 ; on brachistochrones, 99 ; on knot 

 problem, loo; on malrices, 130, 153; on 

 rolalion, 149 ; correspondence wilh Tail, 152- 

 166; orthogonal surfaces, 154; on quaternion 

 inlerpretations, 154-158; contributes chapter 

 lo Tail's Quaternions, 158-159; on coordinates 

 versus quaternions, 161-166 ; letter to, referring 

 to Kelvin's lameness, 189 ; on Laws of Motion, 

 234-235 ; at the Evening Club, 349 



Centrobaric Bodies in "T and T'," 192 



Cervantes, a favourile author, 33 



Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh, election 

 lo, 16 ; retirement from, 39 



Challenger Lodge, last days at, 40 



Challenger Reports, thermomeler correclions, 24, 

 95 ; final report, 82-86 



Chambers' Encyclopaedia, 23 



Charcoal Vacua, experiments wilh Dewar, 81 



Charles, J.-A.-C., and Ihe laws of gases, 226 



Chaucer, quoted by Hamilton, 121 



Chauvinism, 225 



Chiene, John, at Si Andrews, 56 



Christison, Sir Robert, portrail in R.S.E. rooms, 

 29 



Chrystal, G., nolice of Tait in Nature, 42 ; works 

 in Physical Laboratory, 87 ; invenis hygrometer 

 for Ben Nevis Observatory, 87 ; letter from 

 Kelvin about quaternions and "T and T'," 185 ; 

 reads proofs of "T and T'," second edition, 203 ; 

 refers lo " Tail and Sleek," 205 



Clark, Lord Rutherford, at St Andrews, 56 



Clarke, C. B., of Queens', n 



