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INDEX 



on Radiation, 216, 217, 225 ; obituary notice 

 by Tait, 289-291 ; on Auroras, 320 



Stewart, James and Matthew, 306 



Stoffkraft, Hermann, hero of the Paradoxical 

 Philosophy, 241 ; Maxwell's Ode to, 242-244 



Stokes, Sir G. G., 33, 34, 43, 92 ; Gifford Lecturer, 

 35; letter of condolence to Mrs Tait, 41 ; dynami- 

 cal theory of diffraction, 145 ; theorem, 149 ; on 

 Mayer's work, 213 ; Tail's account of Stokes' 

 work, 264-265 ; Mathematical and Physical 

 Papers reviewed, 265-266 ; Burnett Lectures 

 reviewed, 266-269 



Strains, theory of, 22 



Straker, J. H., experiments on thermoelectricity, 



77 



Straths, the, at St Andrews, 56 

 Student, The, Flint's appreciation of Tait in, 44-46 

 Study, Tail's, 33 ; Order of Merit on wall, 43 

 Swan, W., candidale for Edinburgh chair, 16 ; 



intensily and duralion of light, 300-301 

 Sylvester, J. J., 33 ; at St Andrews, 56 ; linear 



malrix equation, 158 ; at the Evening Club, 



349 



"T and T'," 21, 176, 179, 180, 188, 189, 202, 203, 

 228; "Little," 197-201 



Tait, Mrs, presents MS. of "Tail and Steele" to 

 Peterhouse library, 10; marriage, 14; at home, 

 33, 34; letters of condolence to, 41, 42 ; presents 

 earliest portrait of Tait to the Natural Philo- 

 sophy department, 48 ; story of the stolen 

 umbrellas, 58 



Tait, Alex., 57 



Tait, Archibald Campbell, Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, 9, 189 



Tait, Freddie, or Lieut. F. G., 2, 25, 26, 54, 57-60, 

 63, 89; Record of Life, by J. L. Low, 2, 40; 

 wounded at Magersfontein, 37 ; killed al 

 Koodoosberg, 37 ; and ihe Czar of Russia, 54 



Tait, Jack, al St Andrews, 56 



Tait, W. A., 278 



"Tait and Steele," 10, 205-207 



Tail-line in ihermoeleclric diagram, 346-347 



Tail Memorial al Edinburgh Universily, 50 



Tail Memorial Fund, 50 



Tail Prize at Peterhouse, 50 



Tail's one pupil, slory of, 1 1 



Talbot, W. Fox, pholography, 3 ; experimenls in 

 Tail's Laboralory, 76 ; discovery of anomalous 

 dispersion, 76 



Tay Bridge disasler, 278 



Telephone, Chrystal's differenlial, 87 



Temperature, absolute, treated by Tait in his 

 Thermodynamics and Heat, 226, 228 



Tercentenary Celebrations at Edinburgh Uni- 

 versity, 33 



Terminal velocity, 335, 336 



Testimonial to Tait from Hamilton, 138, 139 



Thackeray, W. M., a favourite author, 33 ; quoted, 

 249 



Thermal conduclivily, 80, 81 



Thermodynamic Funclion, Rankine's, 222 



Thermodynamics, Sketch of, 23, 184, 208, 226; 

 French Iranslation, 226 



Therntodynamique, Poincard's, reviewed, 275-276 



Thermoelectric Diagram, Rede Lecture, 251 ; 

 extension of, by J. D. H. Dickson, 345-347 



Thermoelectricity, 77-80, 345~347 



Thermometers, Challenger Deep Sea, 83 



Thompson, D'Arcy, composes Greek verses for 

 The Unseen Universe, 237-238 ; on thunder 

 spurts, 318 



Thompson, D'Arcy Wenlworlh, discusses his 

 father's Greek verses in The Unseen Universe, 

 238 



Thompson, Sylvanus P., Life of Kelvin, 184, 200 



Thomson, James, 12 



Thomson, Sir J. J., on golf ball paths and electron 

 streams, 344-345 



Thomson, Sir William (see also under Kelvin), 

 Laboratory in Glasgow, 22 ; at R. S. E., 30 ; 

 R. S. E. reports for Nature, 31 ; al Tail's 

 Laboralory, 31 ; experimenls wilh Tail's 

 Gramme machine, 31-32 ; al Slokes' Gifford 

 Leclure, 35 ; new forms of galvanomelers and 

 electrometers, 67, 68 ; the vortex alom, 68, 69 ; 

 describes Tail's experimenls on vorlex rings, 

 69; lellers lo, 75, 92, no, 180-184, 218-220; 

 lelters from, 104, 223-224 ; Reprint of Papers 

 on Electrostatics and Magnetism, 176; joins 

 Tail in book, 177 ; repugnance lo wriling 

 books, 178; pioneer work in Heal, 208, 

 218-221 ; wriles with Tait article Energy for 

 Good Words, 209 ; names Maxwell's demons, 

 213; on Clausius and Ihe Enlropy integral, 

 223-224 ; on thermodynamics, 225 ; referred 

 to as editor of Principia, 280 ; referred to in 

 connection with anthropological iheories, 290; 

 on gravilation, 296 ; on electricily and mag- 

 netism, 297; on atmospheric electricily, 299; 

 explains apparenl high velocity of thunder, 

 312; source of atmospheric electricity, 318; 

 the Evening Club, 348 



Thomson, William, Archbishop of York, 189 



Thomson, Sir Wyville, colleague in Belfast, 12 ; 

 story regarding, 15 ; consults Tait about 

 Challenger ihermomelers, 83 



Thomson and Tait's Treatise on Natural Philo- 

 sophy, 21, 31, 176-204; beginnings of, 177; 

 reviewed in various journals, 186 ; general 

 plan described, 187 ; criiicised by Maxwell in 

 lelter, 195 ; reviewed by Maxwell, 203-204 ; 



