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REPORT 1871. 



1844. York . 



1845. Cambridge .. 



1846. Southampton 



1847. Oxford 



1848. Swansea ... 



1849. Birmingham 



1850. Edinburgh. 



1851. Ipswich. 



1852. Belfast . 



1853. Hull .... 



1854. Liverpool .. 



1855. Glasgow 



1856. Cheltenham 



1857. Dublin 



1858. Leeds 



1859. Aberdeen .. 



1860. Oxford 



1861. Manchester 

 18G2, Cambridge 



Charles Lyell, F.E.S 



Dr. Falconer, RR.S 



a. B. Airy, P.R.S.,Astron. Royal 



R. L Murchison, RR.S 



Prof. Owen, M.D., RR.S 



Charles Lyell, F.R.S 



W. R. Grove, F.R.S 



Rev. 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. . . . 



Dr. Faraday, F.R.S 



Rev. Prof. WiUis, M.A., F.R.S. 



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

 F.R.S.E. 



Dr. Mantell, F.R.S 



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



G. B. Airy, F.R.S., Astron. Roy. 

 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.S. 



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 , 



W. R. Grove, F.R.S 



Prof. W. Thomson, F.R.S 



Rev. Dr. Livingstone, D.C.L. ... 

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

 Prof. R. Owen, M.D., RR.S. .., 



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



Rev. Dr. Robinson, F.R.S 



Rev. Prof. Vv^alker, F.R.S 



C:iptain Sherard Osborn, R.N. 

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

 G. B. Airv, F.R.S., Astron. Roy. . 

 Prof. Tvndall, LL.D., F.R.S. ... 

 Prof. Odling, RR.S 



Subject of Discourse. 



Geology of North America. 



The Gigantic Tortoise of the Siwalik 

 Hills in India. 



Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism. 



Geology of Russia. 



Fossil Mammalia of the British Isles. 



Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. 



Properties of the Explosive substance 

 discovered by Dr. Schonbein ; also 

 some Researches of his own on the 

 Decomposition of Water by Heat. 



Shooting-stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo (Bidus inepfus). 



Metallurgical operations of Swansea 

 and its neighbourhood. 



Recent Microscopical Discoveries. 



Mr. Gassiot's Battery. 



Transit of diflerent 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 Geo- 

 logy and Physical Geography of 

 Yorkshire. 



The present state of Photography. 



Anthropomorphous Apes. 



Progress of researches in Terrestrial 

 Magnetism. 



Characters of Sjiecies. 



As.syrian and Babylonian Antiquities 

 and Ethnology. 



Recent discoveries in Assyria and 

 Babylonia, with the results of Cunei- 

 form 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. 



Electrical Discharges in highly rare- 

 fied Media. 



Physical Constitution of the Sun. 



Arctic Discovery. 



Spectrum Analysis. 



The late Eclipse of the Sun. 



The Forms and Action of Water, 



Organic Chemistry. 



