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Date and Place 
1848. 
1849. 
1850. 
1851. 
1852. 
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1857. 
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1860. 
1861. 
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1866, Nottingham | William Huggins, F.R.S. 
Swansea ... 
Birmingham 
Edinburgh 
Ipswich ... 
Belfast...... 
. Liverpool... 
Glasgow ... 
Cheltenham 
Aberdeen... 
Manchester 
Cambridge 
Newcastle 
Birmingham 
REPORT—1885. 
Lecturer 
John Percy, M.D., F.R.S....... 
W. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S... 
Dr. Faraday, F.R.S. . 
Rey. Prof. Willis, M. An F. ‘R. 8. 
Prof. J. H. Bennett, M.D., 
F.R.S.E. 
Dr. Mantell, FUB.S.....ecd.cbees 
Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 
G.B.Airy,F.R.S.,Astron. Royal 
Prof. G. G. Stokes, D.C.L., 
F.R.S. 
Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S. 
Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D., F.R.S., 
F,G.5. 
Robert Hunt, F.R.S............. 
Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 
Col. E. Sabine, V.P.R.S. .. 
Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S. 
Lieut.-Col. H. Rawlinson 
Col. Sir H. Rawlinson 
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Prof. W. Thomson, F.R.S. .. 
Rey. Dr. Livingstone, D.C.L. 
Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D.,F.R.S. 
Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 
Sir R. I. Murchison, D.C.L.... 
| Rev. Dr. Robinson, F.R.S. .. 
Rey. Prof. Walker, F.R.S. .. 
Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N. 
Prof.W. A. Miller, M.A., F.R.S. 
G.B.Airy, F.R.S. Astron. Royal 
Prof. Tyndall, ia. D., F.R.S. 
Prof?'Odling, BRS. ssss<ssde00e 
Prof. Williamson, F.R.S....... 
James Glaisher, F.R.S...... 
Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S.. 
Dr. Livingstone, F. R. S. g 
J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S.. 
Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S....... 
Subject of Discourse 
Metallurgical Operations of Swansea 
and its neighbourhood. 
.| Recent Microscopical Discoveries. 
Mr. Gassiot’s Battery. 
Transit of different Weights with 
varying velocities on Railways. 
Passage of the Blood through the 
minute vessels of Animals in con- 
nexion with Nutrition. 
Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 
Distinction between Plants and Ani- 
mals, and their changes of Form. 
Total Solar Eclipse of July 28, 1851. 
Recent discoveries in the properties 
of Light. 
Recent discovery of Rock-salt at 
Carrickfergus, and geological and 
practical considerations connected 
with it. 
Some peculiar Phenomena in the 
Geology and Physical Geography 
of Yorkshire. 
The present state of Photography. 
Anthropomorphous Apes. 
......| Progress of researches in Terrestrial 
.| Electrical Discharges 
Magnetism, 
Characters of Species. 
.| Assyrian and Babylonian Antiquities 
and Ethnology. 
Recent Discoveries in Assyria and 
Babylonia, with the results of 
Cuneiform research up to the 
present time. 
Correlation of Physical Forces. 
.| The Atlantic Telegraph. 
Recent Discoveries in Africa. 
The Ironstones of Yorkshire. 
The Fossil Mammalia of Australia. 
Geology of the Northern Highlands. 
in highly 
rarefied Media, 
.|Physical Constitution of the Sun. 
Arctie Discovery. 
Spectrum Analysis. 
The late Helipse of the Sun. 
The Forms and Action of Water. 
Organic Chemistry. 
The Chemistry of the Galvanic Bat 
tery considered in relation to- 
Dynamics. 
.|The Balloon Ascents made for the 
British Association. 
..-.|The Chemical Action of Light. 
...| Recent Travels in Africa. 
++....| Probabilities as to the position and 
extent of the Coal-measures be- 
neath the red rocks of the Mid- 
land Counties. 
-|The results of Spectrum Analysis. 
applied to Heavenly Bodies. 
Insular Floras. 
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