INDEX. 



801 



" action at a distance," i. 380 ; ' Pro- 

 perties of Matter,' 388, 425 ; "Kinetic 

 Theory of Gases," 438; "kinetics," 

 ii. 5; 'Light,' 11, 592; 'Light' 

 quoted, 13, 36 ; criticism of Tyndall's 

 theory of heat, 57 ; translation of 

 Helmholtz's memoir on vortex motion, 

 58 ; memoir of Rankine, 62 ; ' Recent 

 Advances of Physical Science,' 63, 

 106, 108 ; ' On Knots,' 64 ; ' Recent 

 Advances of Physical Science' quoted, 

 66; 'Sketch of Thermodynamics,' 

 controversy regarding, 97 ; ' Dyna- 

 mics,' 99 ; and Tyndall and others, 

 107 ; computations of Seguin, 109 ; 

 quoted on the relative values of the 

 terms "force" and "energy," 116; 

 perpetual motion denned, 124 ; pre- 

 face to Rankine's papers, 133 ; (see 

 Clausius), 135 ; physical view of 

 nature, 141 ; ' Heat ' quoted, 591. 



Tait and Crum Brown, Memoir of 

 Thomas Andrews, ii. 162. 



Tait and Steele, ' Dynamics of a Par- 

 ticle,' i. 101, ii. 144. 



Tait and Thomson. See Thomson and 

 Tait. 



Tait's ' Edinburgh Magazine ' published, 

 i. 273. 



Talbot, solar spectrum, i. 278. 



Talleyrand, public instruction, i. 109 ; 

 higher aims of, not realised, 112. 



Tannery, Jules, his lectures on theorv 

 of functions, ii. 704 ; 737. 



Tauchnitz, edition of ancient classics, i. 

 167. 



Taylor, Bayard, ' Faust ' quoted, i. 52. 



Taylor, Brook, i. 101. 



Taylor, Charles, on continuity, ii. 

 660. 



Taylor, 'Scientific Memoirs,'!. 325, ii. 

 263 ; series of, 646. 



Telegraph, first, i. 92. 



Tennyson, mature thought of, i. 76. 



Tenon, i. 107. 



" Tension, "ii. 138. 



Terquem, ii. 660. 



Terrestrial view, ii. 369. 



Teubner, editions of the ancient classics, 

 i. 167. 



Theaetetus, Proclus on, ii. 634. 



The"nard, practical discoveries of, i. 

 147 ; organic analysis, 190 ; ' Chem- 

 istry,' 200 ; ii. 508. 



Theological faculty in German univer- 

 sities, ii. 197. 



Thermodynamics, ii. 62 ; two laws of, 

 128. 



Thermo-elastic phenomena, ii. 142. 



VOL. II. 



Thermo-electric phenomena, ii. 142. 



Theta function, Jacobi's, ii. 649 ; 696." 



Thevenot, original member of Paris 

 " Academic des Sciences," i. 228. 



Thibaud, i. 162. 



Thibaudeau quoted, i. 113 ; ' Le Con- 

 sulat et 1'Empire,' 149, 152. 



Thiersch, Fr., i. 162 ; conducted philo- 

 logical seminaries, 214. 



Tholuck, ' Das akademische Leben des 

 17 ten Jahrhunderts,' i. 163. 



Thomasius represents spirit of Bacon 

 and Leibniz at Halle, i. 160. 



Thompson, Benjamin. See Count Rum- 

 ford. 



Thomsen, V. L. P., a founder of phys- 

 ical chemistry, ii. 152 ; chemical 

 affinity, 171. 



Thomson and Tait, ' Natural Phil- 

 osophy,' i. 45, 101, 274, 316, 318, 

 376, ii. 61, 99, 144, 152, 153, 184, 

 358 ; the term "kinetics," 5 ; referred 

 to, 62, 148 ; influence of, 145. 



Thomson, J. A., 'Science of Life,' ii. 

 228, 271, 337, 338, 348, 349, 370, 436, 

 447; the term "homology," 259; 

 "Cell and Protoplasm," 266; 298; 

 "embryology," 299; quoted on von 

 Baer, 303 ; ' Evolution of Sex,' 344 ; 

 'Science of Life' quoted, 448, 455, 

 458 ; 459 ; on " stirps," 614. 



Thomson, James, harmonic analysis, i. 

 330; heat and "perpetual motion," 

 ii. 126 ; prediction, 126, 170 ; physical 

 view of nature, 141 ; "Crystallization 

 and Liquefaction," 142 ; theory of 

 energy, 166. 



Thomson, J. J., on vortex motion, ii. 

 63, 65, 183 ; Princetown lectures, 

 190 ; ' Researches,' 191 ; ' Discharge 

 of Electricity through Gases,' 192; 

 electrical researches, 362. 



Thomson (the poet), i. 285. 



Thomson, Prof. Thos., i. 188 ; and Dai- 

 ton, 245 ; the atomic theory, 425. 



Thomson, Wm. (Lord Kelvin), on 

 chemical laboratories, i. 188 ; and 

 Helmholtz, 199, ii. 149 ; the conserva- 

 tion of energy, i. 201, ii. 128, 142; 

 Fourier's series, i. 241 ; Green's treat- 

 ise, 246 ; and Joule, 265, 434, ii. 110 ; 

 Faraday's "lines of force," i. 266, ii. 

 71 ; referred to, i. 272 ; his work, 

 274, ii. 133 ; on discovery of spectrum 

 analysis, i. 277 ; telegraphic connec- 

 tion with America, i. 303 ; absol- 

 ute scale of temperature, 309, 315 ; 

 "vortices," 312, 313 ; absolute meas- 

 urements, 323 ; submarine tele- 



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