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EVENING DISCOURSES. 
Date and Place 
Lecturers 
Subject of Discourse 
1863. 
1864. 
1865. 
Newcastle 
Bath 
Birming- 
han. 
1866. Nottingham 
1867. 
1868. 
1869. 
1870. 
1871. 
1872. 
1873. 
1874. 
1875. 
1876. 
1877. 
1878, 
1879. 
1880. 
1881. 
Dundee...... 
Norwich ... 
Exeter 
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Liverpool... 
Edinburgh 
Brighton .., 
Bradford ... 
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Glasgow 
Plymouth... 
Dublin 
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Sheffield .., 
Swansea ... 
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Sir John Lubbock, Bart..M.P., 
|F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S.......... 
«es | Prot. Tait, F.RS.E. 
| Prot. Odlinew HR Nocstsora.s ace 
Prof. Williamson, F.R.S.... 
James Glaisher, F.R.S......... 
Prof.dRoscoe; i. His. scc..cvesee 
Dr. Livingstone, F.R.S. ..... 
|J, Beete Jukes, F.R.S....... 
| Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S....... 
Archibald Geikie, F.R.S....... 
| Alexander Herschel, F.R.A.S. 
lads Fergusson, F'.R.S........-.00. 
Dr. W. Odling, F.R.S.. 
Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D. F. R. Ss. 
|J. Norman Lockyer, F. RS. 
‘Prof. J. Tyndall, LL.D., F.B.S. 
| Prof.W.J. Macquorn Rankine, | 
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|B. A. Abel, ALAS Pane ner eee re 
Seer eseesees 
|E. B. Tylor, F.R.S. 
' Prof, P. Martin Duncan, M.B., 
F.R.S. 
Prof. Work: Clifford ..2cccsccoe 
Prof. W. C.Williamson, F.R.S. 
| Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. 
F.R.S. 
Prof. Huxley, F.R.S. 
W.Spottiswoode,LL.D.,F.R.S 
Sir Wyville Thomson, ¥. R. 8. 
W. Warington Smyth, M.A., 
F.B.S. " 
G. J. Romanes, F.L.S.......... 
Prof. Dewan; HAR O. cesse.cs-- on] 
W.. Crookes, sHuRES: covsccapers.'| 
Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R. 
Prof.W.Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 
| Francis Galton, F.R.S.......... | 
Prof. Huxley, Sec. R.S. 
‘William Huggins, F.R.S.......) 
W. Spottiswoode, Pres. B.S... 
The Electric Discharge : 
..| The Cheeta of ee Catanic 
Battery considered in relation 
to Dynamics. 
The Balloon Ascents made for the 
British Association. 
.| The Chemical Action of .Light. 
.| Recent Travels in Africa. 
.| Probabilities as to the position and 
extent of the Coal-measures be- 
neath the red rocks of the Mid- 
land Counties. 
The Results of Spectrum Analysis 
applied to Heavenly Bodies, 
Insular Floras. 
The Geological Origin of the present 
Scenery of Scotland. 
The present state of Knowledge re- 
garding Meteors and Meteorites. 
Archeology of the early Buddhist 
Monuments. 
.| Reverse Chemical Actions. 
Vesuvius. 
.|The Physical Constitution of the 
Stars and Nebule. 
|The Scientific Use of the Imagi- 
nation. 
Stream-lines and Waves, in connec- 
tion with Naval Architecture. 
Some Recent Investigations and Ap- 
plications of Explosive Agents. 
The Relation of Primitive tu Modern 
Civilisation. 
Insect Metamorphosis, 
The Aims and Instruments of Scien- 
tific Thought. 
Coal and Coal Plants, 
Molecules. 
Common Wild Flowers considered 
in relation to Insects. 
The Hypothesis that Animals are 
Automata, and its History. 
S.| The Colours of Polarised Light. 
Railway Safety Appliances. 
.| Force. 
The ‘ Challenger’ Expedition. 
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. 
$8. Degeneration. 
Primeval Man. 
Mental Imagery. 
The Rise and Progress of Palzeon- 
tology 
its Forms 
and its Functions. : 
