LIST OF EVENING DISCOURSES. 



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Date and Place 



1860. 

 1861. 

 1862. 

 1863. 



1864. 

 1865, 



1866, 



1867. 



1868. 

 1869. 

 1870. 

 1871. 



Oxford 



Manchester 



Cambridge 



Newcastle 



Bath 



Birmingham 



Lecturer 



Rev. 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., F.R.S. 



Prof. Odling, F.R.S 



Prof. Williamson, F.R.S 



James Glaisher, F.R.S.. 



Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S 



Dr. Livingstone, F.R.S. 

 J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S. ., 



Subject of Discourse 



Nottingham (William Huggins,F.R.S 



Dundee. 



iDr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S.... 

 'Archibald Geikie, F.R.S.... 



Norwich .. 



Exeter 



Liverpool.. 

 Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton .. 



1873, 

 1874. 



1875. 

 1876. 

 1877. 



Bradford 

 Belfast... 



Bristol .... 

 Glasgow . 

 Plymouth . 



1878. Dublin 



1879. 

 1880. 



Sheffield .. 

 Swansea .. 



Alexander Herschel, F.R. A.S. 



J. Fergusson, F.R.S 



Dr. W. Odling, F.R.S 



Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D.,F.R.S. 

 J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. . . 



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

 Prof .W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 



LL.D., F.R.S. 

 F. A. Abel, F.R.S 



E. B. Tylor, F.R.S 



Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B., 



F T? S 

 Prof. W.' K. Clifford 



Prof. W. C.Williamson, F.R.S. 

 Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. 

 Sir John Lubbock,Bart.,M.P., 



F.R.S. 

 Prof. Huxley, F.R.S 



W.Spottiswoode,LL.D.,F.R.S. 



F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S 



Prof. Tait, F.R.S.E 



SirWyville Thomson, F.R.S. 

 W. Warington Smyth, M.A., 



F R S 

 Prof. Odling, F.R.S 



G. J. Romanes, F.L.S 



Prof. Dewar, F.R.S 



W. Crookes, F.R.S 



Prof.E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S. 

 Prof. W.Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 

 Francis Galton, F.R.S 



Physical Constitution of the Sun, 



Arctic Discovery. 

 ' Spectrum Analysis. 



The late Eclipse of the Sun. 



The Forms and Action of Water. 

 I Organic Chemistry. 

 i The Chemistry of the Galvanic Bat- 

 tery 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. 



Archaeology of the early Buddliist 

 Monuments. 



Reverse Chemical Actions. 



Vesuvius. 



The Physical Constitution of the 

 Stars and Nebulae. 



The ScientificUse of the Imagination . 



Stream-lines and Waves, in connec- 

 tion with Naval Architecture. 



Some Recent Investigations and Ap- 

 plications of Explosive Agents. 



The Relation of Primitive to 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. 



The Colours of Polarised Light. 



Railway Safety Appliances. 



Force. 



The ' Challenger ' Expedition. 



Physical Phenomena connected wit 

 the Mines of Cornwall and Devon, 



The New Element, Gallium. 



Animal Intelligence. 



Dissociation, or Modern Ideas of 

 Chemical Action. 



Radiant Matter. 



Degeneration. 



Primeval Man. 



Mental Imagery, 



