INDEX 



373 



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

 treatise on, in 



Kingsburgh, Lord, at St Andrews, 56 



Kirchhoff, G. R., referred to in letter to Helmholtz, 

 216 ; referred to by Maxwell, 222 ; laws of 

 radiation, 225 ; spectrum analysis, 227 



Kirkman, Rev. T. P., on knots, 107-108 ; transla- 

 tion of Herbert Spencer's definition of evolu- 

 tion, 284 ; mental idiosyncrasies discussed by 

 Herbert Spencer, 285 



Knocklayd Hill, proposed measurements of lati- 

 tude, 15 



Knots, 24, 105, 106 ; Cayley, Muir, and Kirkman, 

 107 ; Maxwell's verses on, 108 



Knott, C. G., assistant to Tait, 31, 86 ; experi- 

 ments on thermoelectricity, 77-80 ; contact 

 electricity, 96 ; flow of water in tubes, 114 



Knottiness, orders of, 106 



Korteweg, D. J., discussion on Van der Waals' 

 equation, in 



Krouchkoll, M., translates Recent Advances into 

 French, 228 



Laboratory, Tail's Physical, 22, 70, 71, 72 ; Thom- 

 son's and Carey Foster's, 22 ; expansion of 

 Tail's, 86 ; Chrystal works in, 87 

 Lagrange, J. L., Calcul des Fonctions, criticised 



by Hamilton, 122 ; general dynamic methods, 

 176, 191 ; Mtcanique analytique, 194 

 Laidlay, J. E., at St Andrews, 60 

 Lam6, G., referred to by Maxwell, 117 

 Lang, Andrew, 59 



Lang, P. R. S., assistant to Tait, 21, 86 

 Laplace, P. S., on Probabilities, 98 ; Laplace's 



Coefficients or spherical harmonics, 102, 189 ; 



referred to, 176 



Larmor, Sir J., Aether and Matter, 177 

 Last illness, 38 ; last paper (on Gauss and qua- 

 ternions), 37 ; last printed statement, 38 ; last 



written notes on quaternions, 40 

 Latin verses, skill in, 4 

 Laws of Nature, Origin of (Becket), 284 

 Lead punctured by lightning, 310 

 Least Action, principle of, 256 

 Lecker, E., translales Tail's Heat into German, 



229 



Lecture, Rede, on thermoelectric diagram, 251 

 Lecturer, Tail as, 17, 255 

 Lectures, to Edinburgh men, chiefly professional, 



227. 349-35 ; to Induslrial Classes, 24, 252 

 Leslie, Sir John, 66 

 Life Assurance, 24 

 Lighl, article in Encyc. Brit., 24, 229 ; book on, 



24, 228-229 ; and electricily, 297 

 Lighlhouse, Skerryvore, struck by lightning, 90 



306 



Lighlning, inlensily, 300; duralion, 300-301 ; zig- 

 zag characler, 301-302; rod, 305-306; de- 

 structive effects, 309-310 ; punctures sheet 

 lead, 310; forked, sheet, and summer, 311 



Lindsay, James, mechanical assistanl lo Leslie, 

 Forbes and Tail, 66, 74 ; described in College 

 Memories by R. L. Slevenson, 73-74 



Lindsay, Tom, succeeds his father as mechanical 

 assistanl lo Tait, 74 ; experiments in dialher- 

 mancy, 92 ; Tail's righl hand, 95 



Lindsay, Rev. T. M., on W. Robertson Smith, 

 171 ; and the Evening Club, 348 



Linear Vector Function, 130, 135-138, 141, 142, 

 1 68 



Lister, Lord, at R. S. E., 30 



"Lillle T and T'" as lexl-book, 21, 191-201, 231 



Liveing, G. D., lends apparalus for Tail's Rede 

 Leclure, 251 



Lockyer, Sir J. N., 24 



Loewy, B., 290 



Long Carry of golf ball, 60 



Long Driving in Badminton Magazine, 28, 58, 90, 



329-344 

 Low, J. L., author of F. G. Tait, a Record, 2, 40 ; 



on Tait at Si Andrews, 52-63 

 Lucretius, on ihundersiorms, 298 

 Lushington, E. L., helps Thomson lo coin names, 



1 88 



McAulay, A., Utility of Quaternions reviewed, 



276-278 



McColl, Rev. Dr, praises The Unseen Universe, 239 

 McCosh, Rev. J., colleague at Belfast, 12 

 Maccullagh, theorem of, 134 

 McFait, E., experiments on atmospheric electricity, 



306-309 

 Macfarlane, A., notice of Tait in Physical Review, 



42 ; experimenls on eleclric properties of iron, 



80 ; electrical discharge, 96 

 MacGregor, J. G., experiments on ihermoelectricity, 



79 ; on dialhermancy, 92 ; on eleclrical resisl- 



ance of solutions, 96 

 Mackay, Aeneas J. G., and ihe Evening Club, 348 

 Mackay, J. S., notice of Tait in I ' Enseignement 



Mathtmatique, 42 

 McKendrick, J. G., lectures lo Industrial Classes, 



252 



Maclaurin, referred to, 306 

 MacLeish, A. L., experimenls on ihermal con- 



duciion, 8 1 



Maclennan, J. F., and ihe Evening Club, 348 

 Macleod, Rev. N., editor of Good Words, 252 

 Macmillan's Magazine, article on Artificial Selec- 

 tion, 248 

 Magnetic doubling of absorption line, 90 ; poten- 



lial, 147 



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