INDEX 



Fourier, J. B. J., analysis, 22 ; influence on Thom- 

 son, 191 ; and Ohm, 226 



Franklin, B., referred to by McFait, 306 



Fraser, A. C, Tail's joke at, 250 



Fraser, T. R., medical attendant, 41, 42 



Freedom, degrees of, in "T and T'," 188 



Frequency of error, law of, 98 



Fresnel's wave surface, 124-130, 133-134, 141 



Fronde, Anthony, Tail's reply to, 36 



Fuller, F., candidate for Edinburgh chair, 16 ; as 

 teacher, 17 



Future Siale, physical speculations on a, 236 



Gases, Kinetic theory of, 25, 109-113; Russian 

 translation of Tail's papers on, 25 ; Watson's 

 treatise, in 



Gases, Andrews' experiments on compressibility 

 of, 66 



Gauge, high pressure, 84-85 



Gauss, J. K. F., in relation to quaternions, 37 ; 

 theorem, 149 ; curvalura inlegra in " T and T'," 

 1 88; magnetism, 259 



Gay-Lussac, J. L., and the laws of gases, 226 



Geits al Edinburgh Academy, 4 



Gerebiateffe, J., translates Tail's Kinetic Theory 

 of Gases into Russian in Russian Review of 

 Artillery, 25 



Gibbs, Willard, 115 ; equilibrium of heterogeneous 

 substances, 284 



Gibson, G. A., nolice of Tail in Edinburgh Medical 

 Journal, 42 



Gifford Leclures at Edinburgh, Stokes, 35 ; Helm- 

 hollz, 34-35 ; al Glasgow, Tail asked lo give, 35 



Gilbert, L. W., on mirage, 321 



Glacier iheory, Forbes', 1 8, 24 



Gladstone, W. E., as slalesman, dislrust of, 37 



Glaisher, J., observations of temperature changes 

 in air, 326-327 



Glasgow, pamphlet (1863), 199-200; lecture on 

 Force at meeting of Brit. Ass. in, 252, 253 ; 

 lecture on thunderstorms in, 255-296 



Glissettes of ellipse and hyperbola, 160-161 



Gloag, James, mathematical master at Edinburgh 

 Academy, 4, 5 ; elation on receiving news of 

 Tail's Wranglership, 9 ; at the Gumming Club 

 banquel, 10 



Globe lighlning, 312-314 



Goethe, Tail quotes, 48 



Golf, at Bruntsfield Links, 23, 54 ; physical problem 

 in, 25, 27, 28, 88, 331-344 ; unwritten chapter 

 in, 26 ; laws of impact in relation lo, 28, 88, 89, 

 33'> 33 2 ; at Si Andrews, 52-63 ; at Mussel- 

 burgh, 54; "the Morning Round" at, 55; 

 contribulions to the magazine Golf, 58 ; articles 

 on, 58 ; art of, and science of, 59 ; article, 

 Long Driving, 329-344 



Golf Ball, flight in air, 25, 26, 59, 60, 88, 116, 

 334-344 ; pulling, slicing, topping, etc., 26-27, 

 59-60, 117, 331-332; underspin in, 27, 59, 60, 

 337-344 ; " the Bulger," 61, 62 ; phosphore- 

 scent, 57 ; impact with club, 88, 330-331 ; 

 speed measured ballistically, 89, 90, 337 ; palh 

 imilated by Sir J. J. Thomson's streams of 

 negalively charged particles, 344-345 



Golf Match problem, 103-104 



Good Words, article on energy by Thomson and 

 Tail, 23, 209 ; articles by Tail on cosmical 

 aslronomy, 24, 246 



Gordon, Rev. Cosmo Reid, candidale for ihe 

 Edinburgh chair (1860), 16 



Graduates, addresses lo, u, 247, 249-251 



Gramme Dynamo machine, 31, 80; experiments 

 wilh, by Sir W. Thomson, 32 



Grant, Sir Alexander, Tail's regard for, 46 



Grassmann's Ausdehnungslehre, referred lo by 

 Maxwell, 152 



Gravilation, mechanism of, 296-297 



Green's Theorem, 22, 149; and olher allied 

 theorems, quaternion discussion, 148, 149, 150; 

 extension of, in "T and T'," 188 



Green's Problem in "T and T'," 192 



Greig, C. E., experiments in thermoeleclricily, 77 ; 

 in ihermal conduclion, 8 1 



Grove, W. R., Correlalion of ihe Physical Forces, 

 211 



Guilloline, apparaius for sludying impacl, 86, 88 ; 

 guilloline room, 88 



Gun, Ihe Big, 86, 96 



Gunning Vicloria Jubilee Prize, 47 



Gutnrie Headstone (G. H.), Tail's pseudonym, 278 



Gyrostalic pendulum, 191 ; domination, 204 



Haan, Bierens de, 33 ; at the Evening Club, 349 



Hall, T. Wright, a class mate, 5 



Halley, E., referred to in inaugural address, 206 



Hamilton, Sir William Rowan, 12, 13, 14,43, '9i> 

 205 ; influence on Tail, 1 2 ; referred lo in 

 inaugural address, 24 ; Life by Tait in North 

 British Review and in Encyc. Brit., 24 ; 

 Characleristic Function referred to by Max- 

 well, 99, 229 ; Tail's correspondence with, 

 119-140; Hamiltonsche Princip, 115-116; 

 Lectures read by Tait, 119, 126-127; defini- 

 tion of differenlials, 120 ; quotes Chaucer, 

 Cauchy, Moigno, and Newton on fluxions, 

 121 ; criticises Airy, 121 ; discusses Tail's 

 envelope, 123-124; on wave surface, 124- 

 126, 128-130; publishes Elements of Quater- 

 nions, 132 ; teslimonial lo Tail, 138-139 ; ihe 

 hodograph, 205 ; referred lo by Maxwell as 

 having been ignored by Kirchhoffand Clausius, 

 222 ; general method in oplics, 321 



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