EVENING DISCOURSES. 



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EVENING- DISCOUKSES. 



Date and Place 



1842. Manchester 



1843. Cork 



1844. York 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. Swansea . 



1849 



1850, 



Birming- 

 ham. 



1851. 



Edinburgh 

 Ipswich ... 



1852. Belfast. 



1853. Hull. 



1854. 

 1855. 

 1856. 



Liverpool... 

 Glasgow ... 

 Cheltenham 



Lecturers 



Charles Vignoles, F.R.S 



Sir M. I. Brunei 



R. I. Murchison 



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



Prof. E. Forbes, F.R.S 



Dr. Robinson 



Charles Lyell, F.R.S 



Dr. Falconer, F.R.S 



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



R. I. Murchison, F.R.S 



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



Charles Lyell, F.R.S 



VV. 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., 

 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 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 .. 



Col. Sir H. Rawlinson 



W. R. Grove, F.R.S 



Subject of Discourse 



The Principles and Construction of 

 Atmospheric Railways. 



The Thames Tunnel. 



The Geology of Russia. 



The Dinornis of New Zealand. 



The Distribution of Animal Life ini 

 the .<Egean 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 Mammalia of 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 Operationsof 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 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 Babylonian Antiquities- 



and Ethnology. 

 Recent Discoveries in Assyria and 



Babylonia, with the results of 



Cuneiform Research up to the 



present time. 

 Correlation of Physical Forces. 



