Excerpt from Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: Supplementing the Two Volumes of Scientific Papers Published in 1898 and 1900 T the time of his death in 1901 Professor P. G. Tait had just finished editing the Second Volume of his Collected Scientific Papers. The series is now completed by this Memorial Volume whose preparation I undertook at the request of Mrs Tait, who kindly placed a great deal of material at my disposal, and who, together with the other members of the family, has been closely in touch with the work as it proceeded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.