INDEX 



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Class mates at the Edinburgh Academy, 5, 9 



Clausius, R., Second Law of Thermodynamics, 18 ; 

 isothermal equation, 112, 113; entropy, 115; 

 theory of heat, 209, 218, 221 ; Tail's pamphlet 

 on Thermodynamics, 216, 217; complains of 

 Tait's historic sketch, 221 ; referred to by 

 Maxwell, 222 ; Thomson on the entropy 

 integral, 223-224; Fourth Memoir discussed by 

 Tail, 225; "Tendency" of Tait's history 

 objected to, 225 ; referred to by Tyndall in 

 letter to Tail, 257 



Cleek, Tait's furrowed, 28, 61 



Clifford, W. K., 33 ; referred to in connection with 

 B. A. report on quaternions, 153 ; on chemical 

 equations, 1 75 ; reviews The Unseen Universe 

 in the Fortnightly Review, 239-240 ; Elements 

 of Dynamic reviewed, 270-272 ; The Common 

 Sense of the Exact Sciences reviewed, 272-273 ; 

 at the R.S.E., 282 ; at the Evening Club, 349 



Clouds, electric condition in, 316 



Club, the Evening, 347-349 



Club, the Gumming, 3, 6, 9 



Club House at St Andrews, 53, 62 



Cockburn, General, a school mate, 5 



Colding, L. A., work on heat, 210, 211, 212; at 

 the Evening Club, 349 



Colleagues in Queen's College, Belfast, 12 



Colleagues in Edinburgh University Senatus, 46, 47 



College Memories by R. L. Stevenson, 73-74 



Comet's Tails, Tait's views, 246-247 



Compressibility of gases (Andrews), 66 



Compressibility of various liquids, 83-86 



Compression measured by electric contact, 85 



Concentration, Maxwell's name for v 2 , 144 



Conductivity, thermal, 80, 81, 296 



Conductor, lightning, 305, 306 



Conservation of Energy, discovered in Principia, 

 191 ; explained in inaugural lecture, 206 



Constraint, cases of, and Hamilton's characteristic 

 function, 99 



Constraint, geometrical, 188 



Contemporary Review, Tyndall's defence in, 24 



Continuity, Law of, 63, 240 



Controversies, 18, 209, 281-288 



Convergence, Maxwell's name for S.v, 143-144 



Copernicus, 296 



Correspondence, 32 ; rhyming, 93-95 



Cosmical Astronomy, lectures on, 24, 252 ; articles 

 in Good Words, 24, 246, 252 



Coulomb, C. A. de, 259 



Cox, R., of the Evening Club, 347 



Cram, denunciation of, 249-251 



Cremona, L., 33 



Critchley, L. O., photograph of Tail and Lindsay, 

 So 



Critic, Tail as, 255 



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Crookes' Radiometer, 81, 82 



Camming, James, 4 



Gumming Club, the, 3, 6, 9 ; banquet in honour 



of Tail as Senior Wrangler, 10 

 Curl, Maxwell's name for V.v, 143-144 

 Cycle of Operations, Carnot's, 218, 226 

 Gyre, Alfred le, translates Tait's Thermodynamics, 



226 

 Czar of Russia and Freddie Tait, 54 



Daguerre, photography, 3 



D'Alembert's Principle, described by Tait, 235-236 



Dalkeith, Tait's birthplace, 3 ; Grammar School, 3 



Darkness before thunder, 298-299 



Darwin, Sir George, tidal stresses, 193 ; reads 



proofs of " T and T',' 1 second edition, 203 

 Davis, Capt. J. E., tests deep-sea thermometers, 83 

 Davy, Sir Humphry, experiments on heat, 209, 



211, 212, 218 



Demons, Maxwell's, 213, 214 

 Density, electrical, 304 



Dewar, Sir James, pupil and friend, 51 ; prepares 

 sodium and potassium for thermoelectric work, 

 79; experiments in high vacua, 81, 82 ; thermo- 

 electric investigations at low temperatures, 345 

 Diathermancy of water vapour, 92 

 Dickens, Charles, a favourite author, 33 

 Dickson, H. N., work on compression, 96 

 Dickson, J. D. Hamilton, story of Wranglership, 

 9 ; notice of Tait in Peterhouse Magazine, 42 ; 

 foundation of Tait Prize at Peterhouse, 50 ; 

 extension of thermoelectric diagram, 345-347 

 Differential Equations, linear, of second order, 105 ; 



in quaternions, 152 

 Differential Telephone, Chrystal's, 87 

 Differentials in quaternions, 120-123, H 1 

 Diffraction, Stokes' dynamical theory of, 145 

 Dissipation of energy, 24 ; Thomson's expression 



for, during cycle, 221, 223, 224 

 Distance travelled by thunder, 312 

 Distinctions at school and college, 6, 7, 8, 9 

 Distribution of electricity, 304 

 Donaldson, James, and the Evening Club, 347 

 Doppler and Eomer, 226 

 Douglas, D., of the Evening Club, 348 

 Dove, H. W., account of fire-balls, 314 

 Driving, Long, article in Badminton Magazine, 28, 



58, 90, 329-344 



Dnunmond, James, and the Evening Club, 347 

 Duff, Sir M. E. Grant, and the Evening Club, 348 

 Dumas, Alexandra, a favourite author, 33 

 Duncan, J. Matthews, and the Evening Club, 347 

 Dux, permanent, at Edinburgh Academy, 4 

 Dynamic, Clifford's Elements of, reviewed, 270-272 

 Dynamical theory of heat, historic sketch of, 213- 

 225 



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