LIST OF EVENING DISCOURSES. 



Date and Place 



1866. Nottingham 



1867. Dundee 



1868. Norwich .. 



1869. Exeter 



1870. Liverpool.. 



1871. Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton 



1873. Bradford .. 



1874. Belfast 



Lecturer 



Subject of Discourse 



1875. Bristol .... 



1876. Glasgow . 



1877. Plymotith. 



1878. Dublin 



1879. Sheffield 



1880. Swansea 



1881. York 



1882. Southamp- 



ton. 



1883. Southport 



1884. Montreal.. 



1885. Aberdeen... 



William Hiiggins, F.E.S 



Dr. J. D.Hooker, F.E.S 



Archibald Geikie, F.E.S 



Alexander Herschel,F.E.A.S. 



J. Fergusson, F.E.S 



Dr. W. Odling, F.E.S 



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

 J. Norman Lockj'er, F.E.S 



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

 Prof .¥/■. J. Macquorn Eankine, 



LL.D., F.E.«. 

 F. A. Abel, F.E.S 



E. B. Tylor, F.E.S. 



Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B., 



Prof. W. K. Clififord 



Prof. AV. C.Williamson, F.E.S. 

 Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.E.S. 

 Sir John Lubbock,Bart.,M.P., 



F.E.S. 

 Prof. Huxley, F.E.S 



W.Spottiswoode,LL.D.,F.E.S. 



F. J. Bramwell, F.E.S 



Prof. Tait, F.E.S.E 



SirWyville Thomson, F.E.S. 

 W. AVaringtou Smyth, M.A., 



F.E.S. 

 Prof. Odling, F.E.S 



G. J. Eomanes, F.L.S 



Prof. Dewar, F.E.S 



W. Crookes, F.E.S 



Prof. E. Eay Lankester, F.E.S. 

 Prof.W.r.oyd Dawkins,F.E.S. 



Francis Galton, F.E.S 



Prof. Huxley, Sec. li.S 



W. Spottiswoode, Pres. E.S.... 



Prof. Sir Wm. Thomson, F.E.S. 

 Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.E.S. 

 Prof. E. S. BaU, F.E.S 



Prof. J. G. McKendrick 



Prof. O. J. Lodge, D.Sc 



Eev. W. H. Dallinger, F.E.S. 



Prof. W. G. Adams, F.E.S. ... 

 John MuiTay, F.E.S.E 



The results of Spectrum Analysis 

 applied to Heavenly Bodies. 



Insular Floras. 



The Geological Origin of the present 

 Scenery of Scotland. 



The present .state of Knowledge re- 

 garding Meteors and Meteorites. 



Archaeology of the early Buddliist 

 Monuments. 



Eeverse Chemical Actions. 



Vesuvius. 



The Physical Constitution of the 



I Stars and Nebula;. 



I The Scientitic Use of the Imagination 



Stream-lines and Waves, in connec 



' tion with Naval Architecture. 



I Some Eecent Investigations and Ap 



j plications of Explosive Agents. 



The Eelation of Primitive to Modern 



! Civilisation. 



I Insect Metamorphosis. 



j The Aims and Instruments of Scien- 

 tific Thought. 

 Coal and Coal Plants. 

 1 Molecules. 



I Common Wild Flowers considered 

 i in relation to Insects. 

 The Hypothesis that Animals are 



Automata, and its History. 

 The Colours of Polarised Light. 

 Eailway Safety Appliances. 

 Force. 



The Challenger Expedition. 

 Physical Phenomena connected with 

 the Mines of Cornwall and Devon, 

 ' The New Element, Gallium. 

 Animal Intelligence. 

 Dissociation, or Modern Ideas of 

 , Chemical Action. 

 Eadiant Matter. 

 Degeneration. 

 Primeval Man. 

 Mental Imagery. 

 The Eise and Progress of Pahcon- 



tology. 

 The Electric Discharge, its Forms 



and its Functions. 

 Tides. 



Pelagic Life. 

 Eecent Eeseaxches on the Distance 



of the Sun. 

 Galvanic and Animal Electricity. 

 Dust. 



The Modern Microscope in Ee- 

 searches on the Least and Lowest 

 \ Forms of Life. 

 j The Electric Light and Atmospheric 



Absorption. 

 The Great Ocean Basins. 



