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LIST OF EVENING DISCOURSES. 



Date and Place 



1881. York. 



Lecturer 



1882. 

 1883. 



Southamp- 

 ton. 

 Southport 



1884. Montreal. 



Prof. Huxley, Sec. P..S 



W. Spottiswoode, Pre.s. R.S.... 



Prof. Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S. 

 Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S. 

 Prof. R. S. Ball, F.R.S 



Prof. J. G. McKendrick 



Prof. O. J. Lodge, D.Sc 



Rev. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S. 



1885. Aberdeen... Prof. W. G. Adams, F.R.S. 



1886, 

 1887. 

 1888. 



1889. 



1890. 

 1891. 



1892, 

 1893, 



John MuiTay, F.R.S.E 



Birmingham A. W. Rucker, M.A., F.R.S. 



I Prof. W. Rutherford, M.D. ... 

 Manchester Prof. H. B. Dixon, F.R.S. ... 



I Col. Sir F. de Winton 



Bath 'Prof.W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S. ... 



{Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, 



I F.R.S. 

 Newcastle- iProf. W. C. Roberts-Austen, 

 npon-Tyne' F.R.S. 



Walter Gardiner, M.A 



Leeds . 

 Cardiff, 



Edinburgh 

 Nottingham 



1894. Oxford... 



1895. Ipswich 



1902. Belfast 



E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S.... 

 P»of. C. Vernon Boys, F.R.S. 

 Prof.L. C. Miall,F.L.S.,F.G.S. 



Prof . A. W.Riicker.M. A.,F.R.S. 

 Prof. A. M Marshall, F.R.S. 

 Prof. J.A.Ewing,M.A., F.R.S. 

 Prof. A. Smithells. B.Sc. 

 Prof. Victor Horsley, F.R.S. 



J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



Prof. J.Shield Nicholson, M.A. 



Prof. S. P. Thompson, F.R.S. 

 Prof. Percy F. Frankland, 



F.R.S. 



Dr. F. Elgar, F.R.S 



Prof. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L. 

 Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, 



F.R.S. 



J. Milne, F.R.S 



Prof. W. J. SoUas, F.R.S. .. 



Herbert Jackson 



Prof. Charles Richet 



Prof. J. Fleming. F.R.S 



Prof F. Gotch, F.R.S 



Prof. W. Stroud 



Prof. W. Ramsay, F.R.S 



F. Darwin, F.R.S 



Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S.... 

 Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S. 



Subject of Discourse 



The Rise and Progress of Palaeon- 

 tology. 



The Electric Discharge, its Forms 

 and its Functions. 



Tides. 



Pelagic Life. 



Recent Reseaiches on the Distance 

 of the Sun. 



Galvanic and Animal Electricity. 



Dust. 



The Modern Microscope in Re- 

 searches on the Least and Lowest 

 Forms of Life. 



The Electric Light and Atmospheric 

 Absorption. 



The Great Ocean Basins. 



Soap Bubbles. 



The Sense of Hearing. 



The Rate of Explosions in Gases. 



Explorations in Central Africa. 



The Electrical Transmission of Power. 



The Foundation Stones of tlie Earth's 

 Crust. 



The Hardening and Tempering of 

 Steel. 



How Plants maintain themselves in 

 the Struggle for Existence. 



Mimicry. 



Quartz Fibres and their Applications. 



Some Difficulties in the Life of 

 Aquatic Insects. 



Electrical Stress. 



Pedigrees. 



Magnetic Induction. 



Flame. 



The Discovery of the Physiology of 

 the Nervous System. 



Experiences and Prospects of 

 African Exploration. 



Historical Progress and Ideal So- 

 cialism. 



Magnetism in Rotation. 



The Work of Pasteur and its various 

 Developments. 



Safety in Ships. 



Man before Writing. 



Canada's Bletals. 



Earthquakes and Volcanoes. 



Funafuti : the Study of a Coral Island. 



Phosphorescence . 



La vibration nervetise. 



TheCentenaryoftheElectricCurrent, 



Animal Electricity. 



Range Finders. 



The Inert Constituents of the 



Atmosphere. 

 The Movements of Plants. 

 Becquerel Rays and Radio-activity. 

 Inheritance. 



