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EVENING DISCOURSES. 



Date and Place 



1857. Dublin 



1858. Leeds 



1859. Aberdeen.. 



1860. Oxford 



1861. Manchester 



1862. Cambridge 



1863. Newcastle 



1864. Bath. 



1865. Birming- 

 ham. 



1866. Nottingham 



1867. Dundee 



1868. Norwich ... 



1869. Exeter 



1870. Liverpool... 



1871. Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton ... 



1873. Bradford ... 



1874. Belfast 



1875. Bristol 



1876. Glasgow .. 



Lecturers 



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 .W. A. Miller, M.A., F.R.S. 

 G.B.Airv,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 



William Huggins, F.R.S 



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



Archibald Geikie, F.R.S 



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 



Subject of Discourse 



E. B. Tylor, F.R.S 



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



F.R.S. 

 Prof. W. K.Clifford 



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

 Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. 

 Sir John Lubbock,Bart..M.I\. 



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. 



The Atlantic Telegraph. 



Recent Discoveries in Africa. 



The Lonstones of Yorkshire. 



The Fossil Mammalia of Australia. 



The Geology of the Northern 

 JTighlands. 



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 Water. 



Organic Chemistry. 



The Chemistry of the Galvanic 

 Battery 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. 



Arclueology of the early Buddhist 

 Monuments. 



Reverse Chemical Actions. 



Vesuvius. 



The Physical Constitution of the 

 Stars and Nebula?. 



The Scientific Use of the Imagi- 

 nation. 



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. 



