EEPOET 1888. 



ate and Place 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. Swansea 



1849. Birmingham 



1850. Edinburgh 



1851. Ipswich 



1852. Belfast. 



1853. Hull . 



Subject of Discourse 



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 



W. R. Grove, F.R.S 



Rev. Prof. B. Powell, F.R.S. 

 Prof. M. Faraday, F.R.S 



Hugh K Strickland, F.G.S.... 

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



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



Dr. Faradav, F.R.S 



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



Prof. J. H. 

 F.R.S.E. 



Bennett, M.D., 



Dr. Mantell, F.R.S. , 

 Prof. R. Owen, M.D., 



F.R.S. 



1854, Liverpool.. 



1855. Glasgow 



1856. Cheltenham 



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 



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

 Lieut.-Col. H. Rawlinson .., 



1857. Dublin. 



1858. Leeds . 



1859. Aberdeen. 



1860. Oxford. 



1861. Manchester 



1862. Cambridge 



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., F.R.S. 

 Sir R. L 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 



Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism. 

 Geology of Russia. 

 Fossil Mammaliaof the British Isles. 

 Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. 

 Propertiesof 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 {Diduf inejyttis). 



Metallurgical Operationsof 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 

 Carrickf ergus, 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 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 Analysis. 



The late Eclipse of the Sun. 



The Forms and Action of Water. 



Organic Chemistry. 



