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Date and Place 
1845. Cambridge 
1846. Southamp- 
ton. 
1847. Oxford...... 
1848. Swansea ... 
1849. Birming- 
ham. 
1850. Edinburgh 
1851. Ipswich ... 
1852. Belfast...... 
1853. Hull......... 
1854. Liverpool... 
1855. Glasgow ... 
1856. Cheltenham 
1857. Dublin...... 
1858. Leeds ...... 
1859. Aberdeen... 
1860. Oxford...... 
1861. Manchester 
1862, Cambridge 
EVENING DISCOURSES. 
lxxxix 
Lecturers 
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. ....... 
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Rev. Prof. B. Powell, F.R.S. 
Prof, M. Faraday, F.RB.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. .........08- 
Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S. 
Prof. J. H. Bennett, M.D., 
F.B.S.E. 
Dr. Mantell, F.R.S. .........008 
Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 
Subject of Discourse 
Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism. 
.|Geology of Russia. 
Fossil Mammalia of the British Isles, 
-.| Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. 
Properties of the ExplosiveSubstance 
discovered by Dr. Schénbein; 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 vesselsof Animals in con- 
nection with Nutrition. 
Extinet Birds of New Zealand. 
Distinction between Plants and Ani- 
mals, and their Changes of Form. 
G. B. Airy, F.R.S.,Astronomer|Total Solar Eclipse of July 28, 
Royal 
Prof. G. G. Stokes, D.C.L., 
F.B.S. 
Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S. 
Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D.,F.R.S., 
F.G.S. 
Robert Hunt, F.B.S.........02.. 
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. ........008. 
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. ... 
Rey. Prof. Walker, F.R.S. ... 
Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N. 
Prof,W.A. Miller, M.A.,F.R.S. 
G.B.Airy,F.R.S,,Astron. Royal 
Prof, Tyndall, LL.D., ¥.R.8. 
Prof, Odling, FVB.S........00 “6 
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 Assyria and 
Babylonia, with the results of 
Cuneiform Research up to the 
present time. 
Correlation of Physical Forces. 
The Atlantic Telegraph. 
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 the Sun, 
Arctic Discovery. 
Spectrum Analysis. 
The late Eclipse of the Sun. 
The Forms and Action of Water, 
Organic Chemistry, 
