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LIST OF EVENING DISCOURSES. 



Date and Plaee 



1843. Cork , 



1844. York , 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. SoTitliamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. Swansea ... 



1849. Birmingbam 



1850. Edinburgb 



1851. Ipswicb ... 



1852. Belfast. 



1853. Hull, 



1854. Liverpool... 



1855. Glasgow ... 



1856. Cheltenbam 



1857. Dublin 



1858. Leeds 



1859. Aberdeen... 



Lecturer 



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



Prof. E. Forbes, F.R.S 



Dr. Robinson 



Charles LyeU, F.R.S 



Dr. Falconer, F.R.S 



G.B.Airy,F.R.S.,Astron.P.oyal 



R. I. Murehison, 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.... 

 i 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., 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 Himt, 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 



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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. Murehison, D.C.L... . 

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



The Dinomis 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. 



Propertiesof theExplosiveSubstance 

 discovered by Dr. Schonbein ; also 

 some Researclies of his own on the 

 Decomposition of Water by Heat. 



Shooting Stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo (Bidus ineptus). 



Metallurgical Operationsof Swansea 

 and its Neighbourhood. 



Recent Microscopical Discoveries. 



Mr. Gassiot's Battery. 



Transit of different Weights witli 

 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 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 Physical Geography 

 of Yorkshire. 



The present state of Photography. 



Anthropomorphous Apes. 



Progress of Researches in Terrestrial 

 Magnetism. 



Characters of Species. 



Assyrian and Babjdonian Antiquities 

 and Ethnology. 



Recent Discoveries in Assyria and 

 Bab3'lonia, 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. 



