PRESIDENTS AND SECRETARIES OF THE SECTIONS. 



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LIST OF EVENING LECTURES. 



Date and Place 



1842. Manchester 



1843. Cork , 



1844. York, 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. 

 1849. 

 1850. 



1851. 

 1852. 



Swansea ... 

 Birmingham 

 Edinburgh 



Ipswich . . . 

 Belfast 



Lecturer 



Charles Vignoles, F.R.S... . 



Sir M. I. Brunei 



R. I. Murchison 



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

 Prof. E. Forbes, F.R.S 



Dr. Robinson 



Charles Lyell, F.R.S 



Dr. Falconer, F.R.S 



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 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,F.R.S.,Astron. Royal 

 Prof. G. G. Stokes, D.C.L., 



F.R.S. 

 Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S. 



Subject of Discourse 



The Principles and Construction of 

 Atmospheric Railways. 



The Thames Tunnel. 



The Geology of Russia. 



The Dinornis of New Zealand. 



The Distribution of Animal Life in 

 the Mgean Sea. 



The Earl of Rosse's Telescope. 



Geology of North America. 



The Gigantic Tortoise of the Siwalik 

 Hills in India. 



Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism. 



Geology of Russia. 



Fossil Mammalia of the British Isles. 



Valley and Delta of tlie Mis.sissippi. 



PropertiesoftheExplosivesubstance 

 discovered by Dr. Schonbein ; also 

 some Researches of his owti on 

 the Decomposition of AVater by 

 Heat. 



Shooting Stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo (Bidim ineptux). 



Metallurgical Operationsof Swansea 

 and ils neiglibourhood. 



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- 

 nection 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 propertie.s 

 of Light. 



Recent discovery of Rock-salt at 

 Carrickfergus, and geological and 

 pract ical considerations connect ed 

 with it. 



