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INDEX 



Hamilton, Sir W., ambassador at Naples, de- 

 scribes eruption of Vesuvius, 316-317 



Hamilton, Sir W., of Edinburgh, referred to by 

 Tail, 281 



Handwriting, facsimile of Tail's, 182 



Hanna, Rev. W., speaks highly of The Unseen 

 Universe, 239 



Harland, E., a school mate, 5 



Harmonics, spherical, 100-102 ; in "T andT'," 188, 

 189, 190 ; Maxwell refers to, 100-102 



Haughton, S., book reviewed by Tait, 256 



Heat, Tail's book on, 24, 210, 228-231 ; reviewed 

 by Balfour Stewart, 230 



Heat, dynamic theory of, 208 ; evolved during 

 condensation and precipitation, 315 



Heats of combination, Andrews, Favre and Silber- 

 mann, 178 



Hegel, G. W. F., criticism of Newton's fluxions 

 refuted by W. Robertson Smith, 76 



Helmholtz, H. von, 32, 33 ; at Brit. Assoc. (1892), 

 34 ; asked to give Gifford Lectures, 34-35 ; at 

 St Andrews, 56, 197 ; paper on vortex motion 

 translated by Tait, 68, 105, 127 ; viscosity of 

 liquids, 114; electrodynamics, 115; on Tait 

 and quaternions, 169 ; vortex motion, 177, 226; 

 referred to in letter to Andrews, 1 79 ; German 

 translation of "T and T'," 195-196 ; letter to, 

 explaining nautical terms, 196, 197 ; describes 

 Tait at golf, 197 ; Tait in close touch with, 

 208 ; Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft, reviewed 

 in North British Review, 210; on Tail's 

 Thermodynamics, 216-217 > advice to Tait lo 

 shun polemics, 217 ; reply lo Zollner, 256 



Henderson, W., class room iransformed into 

 physical laboratory, 70 



Herbertson, A. J., experiments on impact, 96 



Hermite, C, 33 



Herschel, Sir J. F. W., Astronomy used as text- 

 book, 20; letter to, from Tait about quaternions, 

 141-142 



Hodge, Tom, at St Andrews, 56 ; measurement of 

 elevations, 337 



Hodograph, 99, 102, 205 



Hole, W., artisl of Quasi Cursores, 49 



Homer, at School, 6 



Homogeneous, instability of the, 284-285 



Honours from Academies and Universities, 47 



Hopkins, W., 8, H, 265 



Horace, favourite author, 33 ; quoted, 311, 329 



Horograph in "T and T'," 188 



Huggins, Sir W., spectroscopy, 227 



Huxley, T., at St Andrews, 56, 57, 197 ; at the 

 Evening Club, 349 



Hydraulic apparatus for pressure experiments, 83 



Hydrodynamics, 21 



Hygrometers for Ben Nevis, Chrystal's and Tail's, 87 



Hyperbola, glissettes of, 160-161 



Ideal University, Tail's, 248 



Illuminated address to Tait on retirement, 39 



Impact, in relation to golf, 28, 88, 89 ; duration of, 



88, 89, 331 

 Inaugural lecture in Edinburgh University, 22, 



'39 

 Industrial classes, lectures to, 252 



Inglis, Lord, at St Andrews, 54 



Instability of the homogeneous, Herbert Spencer's, 



284-285 

 International Review article on " Does Humanity 



demand a new Revelation ? " 36 

 Intuitions, physical, 95 

 Isothermal equation, various forms, 112 



Jackson, Sir J., Tait memorial fund, 50-5 1 ; student 



in laboratory, 72 



Jacobi, K. G. J., referred to by Hamillon, 1 19 

 Jenkin, Fleeming, a school male, 5 ; al R. S. E., 



3 



Josephus' problem, 118 



Joule, J. P., 43, 47 ; Tail in close louch wilh, 208 ; 

 prolesls against Tyndall's history of energy, 

 209 ; experiments in heat, 209 ; wrilings re- 

 viewed in North British Review, 210 ; pioneer 

 work in ihermodynamics, 210-212 ; dynamical 

 equivalent, Maxwell's mode of measurement, 

 215-216 ; and Thomson, 224, 225 



Jupiler, observalions on, 3 



Keiih Prize of R. S. E. awarded iwice lo Tait, 47, 



'49 



Kelland, P., 6, 289 



Kelland and Tait's Introduction to Quaternions, 

 149 



Kelvin, Lord (see also W. Thomson), reference 

 lo Tait's marriage, 14 ; thermodynamical dis- 

 coveries, 19 ; prompts Tait to lake up ihe 

 kinetic theory of gases, 25 ; frequent visitor at 

 Tait's house and laboratory, 31-32 ; wild ex- 

 perimenting with Tait's Gramme machine, 32 ; 

 at Brit. Assoc. (1892), 34 ; at Stokes' Gifford 

 Lecture, 35 ; obituary notice of Tail, 43 ; un- 

 veils Tail's porlrail al Pelerhouse, 48 ; account 

 of Tait and Dewar's experimenls on high 

 vacua, 81, 82 ; lelter from, 104-105 ; Sylvanus 

 Thompson's Life of Kelvin, 1 84, 200 ; letter 

 to Chryslal regarding quaternions, 185 ; names 

 Maxwell's demons, 214 ; on Tait's sea-bird 

 analogy, 246 ; supported Tail in his crilique of 

 Poincard's Thermodynamique, 276 



Kepler, J., 296 



Kinelic Energy, term first used, 209 



Kinelic Theory of Gases, 25, 109-115; Russian 



