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EEPORT 1886. 



Date and Place 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. 

 1849. 

 1850. 



Swansea ... 

 Birmingham 

 Edinburgh 



1851. Ipswich 



1852. Belfast. 



1853, Hull, 



1854. 

 1855. 

 1856. 



Liverpool... 

 Glasgow ... 

 Cheltenliam 



Lecturer 



Rev. Prof. B. Powell, F.K.S. 

 Prof. M. Faraday, F.E.S 



Hugh E. Strickland, F.G.S.... 

 John Percy, M.D., F.E.S 



W. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S.... 



Dr. Faraday, F.E.S 



Eev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.E.S. 



Prof. J. H. Bennett, M.D., 

 F.E.S.E. 



Dr. Mantell, F.E.S 



Prof. E. Owen, M.D., F.E.S. 



G.B.Airy,F.E.S.,Astron. Eoyal 



Prof. G. G. Stokes, D.C.L., 



F.E.S. 

 Colonel Portlock, E.E., F.E.S, 



Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D., F.E. S., 

 F.G.S. 



EobertHunt. F.E.S 



Prof. E. Owen, M.D., F.E.S. 

 Col. E. Sabine, V.P.E.S 



Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.E.S. 

 Lieut.-Col. H. Eawlinson .. 



Col. Sir H. Eawlinson 



1864. Bath. 



W. E. Grove, F.E.S 



Prof. W. Thomson, F.E.S. ... 

 Eev. Dr. Livingstone, D.C.L. 

 Prof. J. Phillips,LL.D.,F.R.S. 

 Prof. E. Owen, M.D., F.E.S. 

 Sir E. I. Murchison, D.C.L.... 

 Eev. Dr. Eobinson, F.E.S. ... 



Eev. Prof. Walker, F.E.S. ... 

 Captain Sherard Osborn, E.N". 

 Prof. W. A. Miller, M.A., F.E.S. 

 G.B.Airy,F.E.S.,Astron. Eoyal 

 Prof. Tyndall, LL.D., F.E.S. 



Prof. Odling, F.E.S 



Prof. Williamson, F.E.S 



James Glaisher, F.R.S.. 



Prof. Eoscoe, F.E.S 



Dr. Livingstone, F.E.S. 



Subject of Discourse 



Shooting Stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo {Didiif incjrtus). 

 Metallurgical Operationsof Swansea 

 and its neighbourhood. 



Eecent Microscopical Discoveries. 



Mr. Gassiot's Battery. 



Transit of different Weights with 

 varying velocities on Eailways. 



Passage of the Blood through the 

 minute vessels of Animals in con- 

 nexion with Nutrition. 



Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 



Distinction between Plants and 

 Animals, and their changes of 

 Form. 



Total Solar Eclipse of July 28, 

 1851. 



Eecent discoveries in the properties 

 of Light. 



Eecent discovery of Eock-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 

 Magnetism. 



Characters of Species. 



Assyrian and Babj'lonian Antiquities 

 and Ethnology. 



Recent Discoveries in Assyria and 

 Babylonia, witli the results of 

 Cuneiform research up to the 

 present time. 



Correlation of Phj^sical Forces. 



The Atlantic Telegraph. 



Eecent Discoveries in Africa. 



The Ironstones of Yorkshire. 



The Fossil Mammalia of Australia. 



Geology of the Northern Highlands. 



Electrical Discharges in highly 

 rarefied Media. 



Physical Constitution of the Sun. 



Arctic Discovery. 



Spectrum Analysis. 



The late Eclipse 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. 



