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INDEX 



Prizes, Keith and Gunning Victoria Jubilee, 47 

 Prize, Tail, at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 50 

 Probabilities, article on, 98 

 Projectile, rotating spherical, 28, 116, 340-342; 



path imitated by Sir J. J. Thomson's stream 



of negatively electrified particles, 344-345 

 Promoter at Graduation Ceremonial, 247 

 Properties of Matter, lectures on, 21 ; book on, 24, 



228-231 ; book reviewed by Lord Rayleigh, 



229-230 



Pulling in golf, 26, 333 

 Pupil of Kelland and Forbes, 6 

 Pupil, story of Tail's one, 1 1 



Quarterly Review, review of Tail's Recent Ad- 

 vances, 227 



Quarterly Review, British. See British Quarterly 

 Review 



Quasi Cursores, portrait in, 49 



Quaternions, 12, 13, 14, 24, 119; article in Encye. 

 Brit., 24 ; and Gauss, 37 ; last notes on, 40, 

 169 ; first suggestion of book on, 65 ; Max- 

 well's views on, 101, 145, 147-150, 151, 252; 

 researches by Tail, 102 ; correspondence with 

 Hamilton, 119-141 ; differentials, 120-123, 141 ; 

 wave surface discussion, 1 24- 1 26, 1 28-1 30 ; Tail 

 describes his early studies, 126-127 > potentials, 

 127, 133, 182 ; Ampere's electrodynamic theory, 

 138 ; Hamilton's Elements published, 141 ; 

 Tait's Treatise, 141, 170, 208 ; Kelland and 

 Tail's Introduction to, 142 ; Integrals, Green's 

 Theorem, etc., 149 ; interpreiations discussed 

 by Cayley and Tail, 155-158; versus coordi- 

 nates, argument between Cayley and Tail, 

 161-166; translations of Tait's Treatise, 169; 

 Helmholtz on, 169 ; excluded from "T and T','' 

 183-185 ; as an instrument of research, 276-278; 

 review of McAulay's Utility of Quaternions in 

 Physics, 276-278 



Queen's College, Belfast, 12 



Radiant Spectrum, Brewster's observations, 69 ; 



Tait's explanation, 70 

 Radiation, article in Encyc. Brit., 24 ; reference to 



Balfour Stewart's work, 216, 217, 225 

 Radiometer, Crookes', 81, 82, 296 

 Ramsay, G. G., and the Evening Club, 348 

 ilankine, W. J. Macquorn, I, 209 ; thermodynamic 



function, 115, 222 ; work in Heat, 208,218-221 ; 



letter from, regarding Evening Club, 348 

 Rayleigh, Lord, discussion with Tait on Van der 



Waals ' formula, in; Theory of Sound, 1 76 ; 



on Balfour Stewart's theory of radiation and 



absorption, 217, 225 

 Recent Advances in Physical Science, Tait's, 210, 



226-228, 349-350 



Rede Lecture on the thermoelectric diagram, 251 



Reid, Sir George, portraits of Tait, 47-50 ; the 

 Evening Club, 348 



Reid, Rev. H. S., son-in-law, 40 



Religion, Tait on, 36, 293-295 



Rendu's Glaciers of Savoy, 24 



Repeller on lightning rod, 305 



Reports, Challenger, 82-86 



Reports of R. S. E. meetings to Nature, 31 



Resilience of rubber, vulcanite, glass, steel, etc., 89 



Resistance of air, 26, 335-342 



Resistance, electrical, of wires under load, 76 



Retirement from chair, 39 



Reversible engine, Carnot's, 218, 226 



Review of Artillery, Russian, 25 



Review in British Quarterly Review, of Herbert 

 Spencer's First Principles by J. Fletcher 

 Moulton, 278-283 



Reviewer, Tait as, 255 



Reviews by Tait, de Morgan's Budget of Para- 

 doxes, 257-258 ; Maxwell's Electricity and 

 Magnetism, 258-260 ; Maxwell's Matter and 

 Motion, 260-261 ; Stokes' Mathematical and 

 Physical Papers, 265-266 ; Stokes' Burnett 

 Lectures, 266-269 > Clifford's Elements of 

 Dynamic, 270-272 ; Clifford's The Common 

 Sense of the Exact Sciences, 272-273 ; Poin- 

 card's Thermodynamique, 273-276 ; McAulay's 

 Utility of Quaternions, 276-278 ; Becket's On 

 the Origin of the Laws of Nature, 284 



Rhyming correspondence, 93-95 



Rigid Body, rotation of, 149 



Rising club shot, in golf, 60 



Robins, B., on resistance of the air, 336 ; effect of 

 rotation, 339, 340 



Homer and Doppler, 226 



Ronaldson, John, Tait's uncle, 3 ; letter to, regard- 

 ing Knocklayd Experiment, 15 



Rotation of a rigid body, 149 ; Maxwell on, 150 



Rotatory polarisation, 91, 92 



Routh, E. J., candidate for chair, 16 ; trainer of 

 senior wranglers, 17 



Rowland, H. A., 94 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, 28-30; elected Fellow, 

 28 ; elected Secretary, 28 ; old Meeting Room, 

 29 ; removal to new premises, 29 ; portraits, 

 29 ; minutes of council in reference to Tait's 

 death, 42 ; award of prizes, 47 



Royal Society of London, 49 ; award of Royal 

 Medal, 47 



Rumford, Count, experiments on heat, 209-212, 

 218 



Russia, Czar of, and Freddie Tait, 54 



Russian Review of Artillery, 25 



Sabine, Sir E., on luminous clouds, 317 



