LIST OF EVENING DISCOUESES. 



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Bate and Place 



1845. 

 1846. 



Cambridge 

 Southamp- 

 ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. 

 1849. 

 1850. 



Swansea ... 

 Birmingham 

 Edinburgh 



1851. Ipswich ... 



1852. Belfast. 



1853. Hull, 



1854. 

 1855. 

 1856. 



Liverpool... 

 Glasgow ... 

 Cheltenham 



Lecturer 



R. L Murchison, F.R.S 



Prof. Owen, M.D., F.R.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. Willis, 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,P.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 



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

 Lieut.-Col. H. Rawlinson ... 



Col. Sir H, Rawlinson 



1862, Cambridge 



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., F.R.S. 

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

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



Rev. Prof. "Walker, F.R.S. ... 

 Captain Sherard Osborn. R.N. 

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

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



Royal. 

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

 Prof. Odling, F.R.S 



Subject of Discourse 



Geology of Russia. 



Fossil Mammalia of the British Isles. 



Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. 



PropertiesoftheExplosiveSubstance 

 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 (Bhliis uiejjtus). 



Metallurgical Operations of Swansea 

 and its Neighbourhood. 



Recent Microscopical Discoveries. 



Mr. Gassiot's Battery. 



Transit of different Weights witli 

 varying Velocities on Railways. 



Passage of the Blood through tlie 

 minu.te vessels of Animals in con- 

 nection with Nutrition. 



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 Assyri.a and 

 Babylonia, with the results of 

 Cuneiform 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 



rarefied Media. 

 Physical Constitution of the Sun. 

 Arctic Discovery. 

 Spectrum Analj'sis. 

 The late Eclipse of the Sun, 



The Forms and Action of Water. 

 Organic Chemistry. 



