LIST OF EVENING LECTDKES. 



Ixi 



Date and Place 



1863. Newcastle 



1864. Bath 



1865. Birmingham 



1866. Nottingham 



1867. Dundee 



1868. Norwich .. 



1869. Exeter 



1870. Liverpool.. 



1871. Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton .. 



1873. Bradford .. 



1874. Belfast 



1875. Bristol .... 



1876. Glasgow . 



1877. Plymouth. 



1878. Dublin 



1879. Sheffield 



1880. Swansea 



1881. York 



Lecturer 



Prof. Williamson, F.R.S., 



James Glaisher, F.R.S... 



Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S 



Dr. Livingstone, F.R.S. 

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



William Huggins, F.R.S. ... 



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



Archibald Geikie, F.R.S 



Alexander Herschel, F.R.A.S. 



J. Fergusson, F.R.S 



Dr. W. Odling, F.R.S 



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

 J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S 



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

 Prof .W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 



LL.D., F.R.S. 

 F. A. Abel, F.R.S 



E. B. Tylor, F.R.S 



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



F R S 

 Prof. W.' K. Clifford 



Prof. W. C.Williamson, F.R.S. 

 Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. 

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



F.R.S. 

 Prof. Huxley, F.R.S 



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



F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S 



Prof. Tait, F.R.S.E 



SirWyville Thomson, F.R.S. 

 W. Warington Smyth, M.A., 



F.R.S. 



Prof. Odling, F.R.S 



G. J. Romanes, F.L.S 



Prof. Dewar, F.R.S 



W. Crookes, F.R.S 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S. 

 Prof .W.Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S 



Francis Galton, F.R.S , 



Prof. Huxley, Sec. R.S 



W. Spottiswoode, Pres. R.S. 



Subject of Discourse 



The Chemistry of 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. 



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. 



Archseology of the early Buddhist 

 Monuments. 



Reverse Chemical Actions. 



Vesuvius. 



The Physical Constitution of the 

 Stars and Nebulae. 



Scientific Use of the Imagination. 



Stream-lines and Waves, in connec- 

 tion with Naval Architecture. 



Some recent investigations and ap- 

 plications of Explosive Agents. 



The Relation of Primitive to Modern 

 Civilization. 



Insect Metamorphosis. 



The Aims and Instruments of Scien- 

 tific Thought. 

 Coal and Coal Plants. 

 Molecules. 

 Common Wild Flowers considered 



in relation to Insects. 

 The Hypothesis that Animals are 



Automata, and its History. 

 The Colours of Polarized Light. 

 Railway Safety Appliances. 

 Force. 



The Cliallenger Expedition. 

 The Physical Phenomena connected 



with the Mines of Cornwall and 



Devon. 

 The new Element, Gallium. 

 Animal Intelligence. 

 Dissociation, or Modern Ideas of 



Chemical Action. 

 Radiant Matter. 

 Degeneration. 

 Primeval Man. 

 Mental Imagery. 

 The Rise and Progress of Palseon- 



tology. 

 The Electric Discharge, its Forms 



and its Functions. 



