EVENING DISCOURSES. 



Ixxxix 



Date and Place 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. Swansea ... 



1849. 



1850. 



Birming- 

 ham. 



1851, 



Edinburgh 

 Ipswich ... 



1852. Belfast. 



1863. Hull, 



1854. 



1855. 



1856. 



Lecturer 



Liverpool... 

 Glasgow ... 

 Cheltenham 



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



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., 

 r.R.S.E. 



Dr. Mantell, F.R.S 



Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 



G. B. Airy, F.R.S., Astronomer 



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 ... 



Subject of Discourse 



Col. Sir H. Rawlinson 



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. 

 Prof.M''. A. Miller, M.A.,F.R.S. 

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

 Prof. Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Prof, Odling, F.R.S 



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 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 tlie 

 minute vessels of Animals in con- 

 nection with Nutrition. 



Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 



Distinction between Plants and Ani- 

 mals, 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 Pliysical Geography 

 of Yorkshire. 



The present state of Photography. 



Anthropomorphous Apes. 



Progress of Researches in Terrestrial 

 Magnetism. 



Characters of Species. 



Assyrian and Babj'loni.an 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 W^tef. 



Organic Chemistry. 



