LIST OF EVENING LECTURES. 



Ixv 



1878. Dublin 



1879. 

 1880. 

 1881. 



1882. 

 1883. 



Sheffield 

 Swansea 

 York 



Southamp- 

 ton. 

 Southport 



1884. Montreal, 



I 



1885. Aberdeen. 



1886. 

 1887. 



Hirmingham 

 Manchester 



1888. Bath. 



1889. 



Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne 



Lecturer 



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



F.R.S. 

 Prof. W. K. Clifford 



Prof. W. C.Wil liamson, 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.r.oyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 



Francis Galton, F.R.S 



Prof. Huxley, Sec. R.S 



W. Spottiswoode, Pre.s. R.S. 



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

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

 Prof. R. S. Ball, F.R.S 



Prof. J. G. McKendrick, 

 F.R.S.E. 



Prof. O. J. Lodge, D.Sc 



Rev. W. H. Dailinger, F.R.S. 



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



John Murray, F.R.S.E 



A. W. Riicker, M.A., F.R.S. 

 Prof. W. Rutherford, M.D. ... 

 Prof. H. B. Dixon, F.R.S. ... 

 Col. Sir F. de Winton, 



K.C.M.G. 

 Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S. ... 



Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, 



F.R.S. 

 Prof. W. C. Roberts- Austen, 



F.R.S. 

 Walter Gardiner, M.A 



Subject of Discourse 



Insect Metamorphosis. 



The Aims and Lnstruments of Scien- 



titic Thought. 

 Coal and Coal Plants. 

 Molecules. 

 Common Wild Flowers considered 



in relation to Insects. 

 The Hypotliesis that Animals are 



Automata, and its History. 

 The Colours of Polarized Light. 

 Railway Safety Appliances. 

 Force. 



The Challenger 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 Palaeon- 

 tology. 

 The Electric Discharge, its Forms 



and its Functions. 

 Tides. 



Pelagic Life. 

 Recent Researches on the Distance 



of the Sun. 

 Galvani and Animal Electricity. 



Dust. 



The Modern Microscope in Re- 

 searches on the Least and Lowest 

 Forms of Life. 



The Electric Light and Atmospheric 

 Absorption. 



The Great Ocean Basins. 



Soap Bubbles. 



The Sense of Hearing. 



The Rate of Explosions in Gases. 



Explorations in Central Africa. 



The Electrical Transmission of 



Power. 

 The Foundation Stones of the Earth's 



Crust. 

 The Hardening and Tempering of 



Steel. 

 How Plants maintain themselves ia 



the Struggle for Existence. 



1889. 



