LIST OP EVENING DISCOURSES. 



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Date and Place 



Lecturer 



1844. York , 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. 

 1849. 

 1850. 



Swansea ... 



Birmingham 



Edinburgh 



1851. Ipswich 



1862. Belfast. 



1853, Hull. 



1854. 

 1855. 

 1856. 



1857. 

 1^68. 



Liverpool... 

 Glasgow ... 

 Cheltenham 



Charles Lyell, F.R.S 



Dr. Falconer, F.R.S 



G.B.Airy,F.R.S.,Astron.Eoyal 



R. L 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 



iProf. 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, E.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 ... 



Dublin 



Leeds 



Aberdeen.. 



Subject of Discourse 



Col. Sir H. Rawlinson 



I860. Oxford. 



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. I. Murchison, D.C.L... . 

 Rev. Dr. Robinson, F.R.S. ... 



Rev. Prof. Walker, F.R.S. ... 

 Captain Sherard Osborn. R.N, 



Geology of Nortli 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. 



Propertiesof theExplosiveSubstance 

 discovered by Dr. Schonbein ; also 

 some Researches of his own on the 

 Decomposition of Water by Hent. 



.Shooting Stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo {Diclus hicjjtiis). 



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 con- 

 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 

 Carrickfergus, 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 Assyri.a and 

 Babylonia, with the results of 

 Cuneiform Research up to the 

 present time. 



Correlation of Physical Forces. 



The Atlantic Telegr.apli. 



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 tjie Suij, 



Arctjc Discovery. 



