LIST OF EVENING 
LECTURES. xlix 
Date and Place 
Presidents 
Secretaries 
1879. Sheffield ... 
1880. Swansea ... 
US Bile WOTKs:...3000 
1882. Southamp- 
ton. 
1883. Southport 
J. Robinson, Pres. Inst. Mech. 
Eng. 
A. T. Atchison, Emerson Bainbridge, 
H. T. Wood. 
James Abernethy, V.P. Inst.|A. T. Atchison, H. T. Wood. 
C.E., F.R.S.E. 
Sir W. G. Armstrong, C.B.,/A. T. Atchison, J. F. Stephenson, 
LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. 
John Fowler, C.E., F.G.S. 
James Brunlees, 
Pres.Inst.C.E. 
H. T. Wood. 
...{A. T. Atchison, F. Churton, H. T. 
Wood. 
F.R.S.E.,|A. T. Atchison, E. Rigg, H. T. Wood. 
List of Evening Lectures. 
Date and Place 
Lecturer 
Subject of Discourse 
1842. Manchester 
seer nw eeee 
1845. Cambridge 
1846. Southamp- 
ton, 
1847. 
1848. Swansea ... 
1849, Birmingham 
1850. Edinburgh 
1851. Ipswich ... 
1852. Belfast 
1883. 
Charles Vignoles, F.R.S...... 
Sir M. I. Brunel 
R. I. Murchison 
Prof. Owen, M.D., F.R.S....... 
Prof, H. Forbes, F.R.S.......... 
Dr. Robinson 
Charles Lyell, F.R.S. ......... 
Dr. Falconer, F.B.S.......200.++ 
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|G.B.Airy,F.R.S.,Astron.Royal 
R. I. Murchison, F.R.S. ...... 
Prof. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 
Charles Lyell, F.R.S. ......... 
Wir Grove, Lah, Gessccseccusss 
Rey. Prof. B. Powell, F.R.S. 
Prof, M. Faraday, F.R.S....... 
Hugh E. Strickland, F.G.S.... 
John Percy, M.D., F.R.S....... 
W. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S.... 
Dri Haraday, HAR:S: ¢..cescs-se 
Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S. 
Prof. J. H. Bennett, M.D., 
F.R.S.E. 
Drs Mantel, HORS.) .ccscseusset 
Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 
G.B.Airy,F.B.S.,Astron. Royal 
Prof. G. G. Stokes, D.C.L., 
F.R.S. 
Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S. 
The Principles and Construction of 
Atmospheric Railways. 
The Thames Tunnel. 
The Geology of Russia. 
The Dinornis of New Zealand. 
The Distribution of Animal Life in 
the #gean Sea. 
The Earl of Rosse’s Telescope. 
Geology of North America. 
The Gigantic Tortoise of the Siwalik 
Hills in India. 
Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism. 
Geology of Russia. 
.| Fossil Mammaliaof the British Isles. 
Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. 
Properties of the Explosive substance 
discovered by Dr. Schénbein; also 
some Researches of his own on the 
Decomposition of Water by Heat. 
Shooting Stars. 
Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 
mena. 
The Dodo (Didus ineptus). 
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, 
