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REPORT — 1900. 



Date and Place 



1848. Swansea ... 



1849. Birmingham 



Lecturer 



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



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



Dr. Faraday, F.R.S 



Kev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S. 



1850. Edinburgh iProf. J. H. Bennett, M.D., 



I F.R.S.E. 



Dr. Mantell, F.R.S 



1851. Ipswich ... I Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 



Subject of Discourse 



1852. Belfast. 



1853. Hull, 



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.S. 



Robert Hunt, F.R,S 



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

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



1854. Liverpool. 

 1853. Glasgow . 

 1856. Cheltenham Col. Sir H. Rawlinson 



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

 Lieut.-Col. H. Rawlinson .. 



W. R. Grove, F.R.S 



1857. Dublin Prof. W. Thomson, F.R.S. ... 



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



1858. Leeds Prof. J. Phillips,LL.D.,F.R.S. 



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



1859. Aberdeen... I Sir R. L Murcbison, D.C.L.... 



I Rev. Dr. Robinson, F.R.S. ... 



1860. Oxford Rev. Prof. AValkcr, F.R.S. ... 



I Captain Sherard Osborn. R.N. 



1861. Manchester jProf.W. A. Miller, M.A., F.R.S. 

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



Roval. 

 Prof."Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Prof. Odling, F.R.S 



Prof. Williamson, F.R.S 



1862. Cambridge 



1863. Newcastle 



1864. Bath 



1865. Birmingham 



James Glaisher, F.R.S.. 



Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S 



Dr. Livingstone, F.R.S. 

 J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S. .. 



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 vesselsof Animals in con- 

 nection with Niatrition. 

 Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 

 Distinction between Plants and 



Animals, 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 



Magnetism. 

 Characters of Species. 

 .Assyrian and Babylonian Antiquities 



and Ethnology. 

 Recent Discoveries in Assyria and 



Babylonia, with the resists of 



Cuneiform Research up to the 



present time. 

 Correlation of Physical Forces. 

 The Atlantic Telegraph. 

 Recent Discoveries in Africa. 

 The Ironstones of York.shire. 

 The Fossil Mammalia of Australia. 

 Geology of the Northern Highlands, 

 Electrical Discharges in liighly 



rarefied Bledia. 

 Physical Constitution of the Sun. 

 Arctic Discovery. 

 Spectrum Analysis. 

 The late Eclipse of the Sun. 



The Forms and Action of Water. 



Organic Chemistry. 



The Chemistiyof 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. 



