LIST OF EVENINO DISOOUBSES. 



LIST OF EVENING DISCOUKSES. 



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Date and Place 



1842. Manchester 



1843, Cork , 



1844. York , 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



top. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. 

 1849. 



1850. 



Swansea ... 



Birmingham 



Edinbursrh 



1851, Ipswich ... 



1852. Belfast. 



1853. Hull, 



1854, 

 1855. 

 1856, 



Liverpool... 

 Glasgow ... 

 pheltenham 



Lecturer 



Subject of Discourse 



Charles Vignoles, F.E.S 



Sir M.L 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.P.oyal 



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 



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 



W, R. Grove, F.R.S 



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 ^gean 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 Mammaliaof the British Isles. 

 Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. 

 Properties of the ExplosiveSubstance 



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 (Didus ineptus). 

 Metallurgical Operations of 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 oon» 



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 



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. 



