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LIST OF EVENING DISCOURSES. 
Date and Place Lecturer 
1842. Manchester | Charles Vignoles, F.R.S...... 
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|R. I. Murchison..,..........000.. 
S45, Cork ..:....:. | Prof. Owen, M.D., F.R.S....... 
| Prof. E. Forbes, F.R.S.......... 
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1844. York...:..... Charles Lyell, F.RB.S. ......... 
Dr. Falconer, F.R.S............ 
1845. Cambridge |G.B.Airy,F.R.S.,Astron.Royal 
R. I. Murchison, F.R.S. ...... 
1846. Southamp- | Prof. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. ... 
ton. Charles Lyell, F.R.S. ......... 
W. R. Grove, F.RB.S...........5. 
1847. Oxford...... Rev. Prof. B. Powell, F.R.S. 
Prof. M. Faraday, F.R.S....... 
Hugh E. Strickland, F.G.S.... 
1848. Swansea ...|John Percy, M.D., F.R.S....... 
W. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S.... 
1849, Birmingham) Dr. Faraday, F.R.S. ............ 
Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S. 
1850. Edinburgh |Prof. J. H. Bennett, M.D., 
F.R.S.E. 
Dr: Mantel, WOR.S;, ccccecsceas 
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 in 
the Aigean 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. 
Properties of the ExplosiveSubstance 
discovered by Dr. Schénbein; also 
some Researches of his own on the 
Decomposition of Water by Heat. 
Shooting Stars. 
Magnetic and Diamagnetie Pheno- 
mena. 
The Dodo (Didus ineptus). 
Metallurgical Operations of 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 vesselsof Animals in con- 
nection with Nutrition. 
Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 
1851. Ipswich ...| Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.RB.S. 
G.B.Airy,F.R.S.,Astron. Royal 
1852. Belfast...... Prof. G. G. Stokes, D.C.L., 
F.R.S. 
Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S. 
1853. Hull.........| Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D.,F.R.S., 
F.G.S. 
Robert Hunt, F.R.S............. 
1854, Liverpool...| Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. 
Col, E. Sabine, V.P.R.S. ...... 
1855. Glasgow ...|Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R,S. 
Distinction between Plants and 
Animals, 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. 
Lieut.-Col, H. Rawlinson 
. | Assyrian and Babylonian Antiquities 
and Ethnology. 
