INDEX 



377 



St Andrews, Tail at, 52-63 ; Club House, 53, 62 ; 

 Crum Brown, Helmholtz, and Huxley at, 56, 



57, 197 



St Elmo's Fire, 306 



Sang, Edward, candidate for Edinburgh chair, 16 



Schoolmaster, the Mad, Tail's problem of, 108 



Science of golf, 59 



Science, Religion and, article in The Scots Ob- 

 server, 292-295 



Scientific articles, popular, 296-344 



Scoresby, W., observations of mirage, 109,321-326 



Scots Observer, The, verses in, 61 ; article on 

 Religion and Science, 292-295 



Scotsman, The, the unwritten chapter on golf, 26 ; 

 Tail's description of laboratory, 70 ; review of 

 " T and TV' 186 



Scott, Sir Walter, portrait in R. S. E., 29 ; a 

 favourite author, 33 ; centenary, 196 



Scottish Provident Institulion, Director of, 25 



Scrap Book, Tail's, 2, 3, 8, 242 



Sea-bird analogy of comet's lails, 246-247 



Se"guin, A., work in Heat, 210 



Selection, Artificial, article in Macmillaris Maga- 

 zine, 248 



Senate House examinations, preparation for, 8 



Senatus, minute of, in reference to Tail's retire- 

 ment, 39 ; colleagues in, 47 



Senior Wrangler, 9 



Sensation and Science, 256 



Stand, A., experiments on compression, 86; ex- 

 periments on impact, 96 



Sharpey, W., University Commission of 1872, 71 



Shaw, Sir Doyle Money, letter to, 9 ; president of 

 Gumming Club, 9, 10 



Sheet lightning, 311 



Sherriff, General, a school mate, 5 



Siebert, G., translates Tail's Properties of Matter, 

 229 



Silbernrann and Favre, 178 



Sime, James, Forbes' medallist, 7 



Simpson, Sir W., on golf, 59 



Sinclair, Rt Hon. Thomas, pupil of Tail in Bel- 

 fast, 12 



Siren for fog-signalling, 91 



Skerryvore Lighthouse, struck by lightning, 90, 306 



Sketch of Elementary Dynamics, 197-200 



Sketch of Thermodynamics, 208-226 



Slesser, G. M., Tail's successor in Belfast, 177 



Slicing in golf, 26, 27, 333 



Smith, Archibald, wave surface, 124 



Smith, H. J. S., University Commission of 1872, 71 



Smith, C. Michie, experimenis on thermoelectricity, 

 78-80, 97 ; flow of water in tubes, 1 14 



Smith, W. Robertson, at St Andrews, 56 ; Ferguson 

 scholar, 71 ; assistanl lo Tail, 71, 86; experi- 

 ments on flow of electricity in plates, 72 ; 



refutes Hegel's criticisms of Newton's method 

 of establishing the fluxional or differential 

 calculus, 76 ; suggests name Nabla, 143 ; 

 at Brit. Assoc. meeting of 1871, 171 ; writes 

 Hebrew superscription to Maxwell's Tyndallic 

 Ode, 171-172; editor of Encyc. Brit., 231; 

 letter to, about The Unseen Universe, 238 ; 

 refers to Bain's Logic, 247 ; obituary notice by 

 Tail, 291-292 ; the Evening Club, 348 

 Smythe, Piazzi, at R. S. E., 30; referred to by 



Tail, 92 



Solids moving in fluid, 191 

 Solulions, compressibilily of, 84-86 

 Somerset Cottage, Tail's early home, 3 

 Somerville, Mrs, Connection of the Physical 



Sciences, 211 



Sound, Lord Rayleigh's Theory of, 176 

 Spectrum, radiant, Brewster's observations, 69; 



Tail's explanation, 70 

 Spectrum analysis and spectroscopy, 227 

 Spencer, Herbert, at Brit. Assoc. meeting in Belfast 

 (1874), 175 ; First Principles reviewed in 

 British Quarterly by J. Flelcher Moullon, 

 278-283 ; replies to criticisms in The Fort- 

 nightly, 279 ; appendix to First Principles 

 dealing with criticisms, 279 ; attacks Tail's ex- 

 perimenlal philosophy, 279 ; allacks "TandT'," 

 280 ; is replied to by Tail, 281, 284, 285-288 ; 

 replies to Tail, 281-282, 284-285, 288 ; on ihe 

 menial idiosyncrasies of Mallhew Arnold, 

 Kirkman, Tail, men of lelters and mathema- 

 ticians generally, 285 ; allacks Tail as aulhor 

 of The Unseen Universe, 286 

 Spherical Harmonics, 100-102, 182-183, 188-190 

 Spottiswoode, W., refers to Grassmann's Aus- 



dehnungslehre, 152 



Stas, J. S., of Brussels, visits Edinburgh, 68 

 Steele, W. J., college friend, 8, 9 ; second wrangler, 

 9 ; co-aulhor wilh Tail of Dynamics of a 

 Particle, 10, 205 ; early death, 10 ; portrait in 

 group wilh Tail, 1 1 



Stevelly, Tail's colleague at Belfast, 12 

 Stevenson, D. and T., prelection of lighthouses 



from lightning, 90 



Stevenson, Robert Louis, studenl in ihe Labora- 

 tory, 72 ; paper on temperalure as influenced 

 by woods, 73 ; word piclure of Old Lindsay, 

 73-74 ; Some College Memories, 73-74 

 Stevenson, Thomas, lighihouse engineer, 73 



90 



Stewart, A. D., a school mate, 5 ; selected designs 

 for Forth Bridge, 5 ; at St Andrews, 54 ; 

 designer of girders of Tay Bridge, 278 

 Stewart, Balfour, at Edinburgh University, 7 ; 

 experiments along with Tail, 23, 68 ; co-author 

 of The Unseen Universe, 24, 36, 105, 236-237 ; 



