LIST OF EVENING DISCOURSES, 
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Date and Place Lecturer Subject of Discourse 
1875. Bristol ......| W.Spottiswoode,LL.D.,F.R.S.|The Colours of Polarised Light. 
F, J. Bramwell, F.R.S.......... Railway Safety Appliances, 
1876. Glasgow ... Prof, Tait, F.R.S.H. ............| Horce, 
j Sir Wyville Thomson, ERS. |The ‘ Challenger’ Expedition. 
1877. Plymouth...) W. Warington Smyth, M.A.,| Physical Phenomena connected with 
1878. 
1879. 
1880. 
1881. 
1882. 
1883. 
1884. 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 
1888, 
1889. 
. Ipswich 
Dublin 
Sheffield .. 
Swansea ... 
Southamp- 
ton. 
Southport 
Montreal... 
Aberdeen... 
Birmingham 
Manchester 
Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne | 
seenee 
. Edinburgh 
. Nottingham 
.| W. Crookes, F.R.S. ....... 
F.R.S. 
Prof. Odling, F.R.S,.........64 
G. J. Romanes, F.L.S.......... 
Prof. Dewar, F.R.S. ............ 
Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F. 
Prof.W.Boyd Dawkins, F. 
Francis Galton, F.B.S.......... 
Prof. Huxley, Sec. It.8. 
wm: 
| W. Spottiswoode, Pres. R.S.... 
Prof. Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S5. 
Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S. 
Prot. Haioe ball tReet as on. 
| Prof. J. G. McKendrick. ...... 
Prof. O. J. Lodge, D.Sc. ...... 
Rev. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S. 
Prof. W. G. Adams, F.R.S.... 
John Murray, F.R.S.E......... 
A, W. Riicker, M.A., ERS. 
Prof. W. Rutherford, M.D: ... 
Prof, H. B. Dixon, ERS. 
Col. Sir F. de Winton ......... 
Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S.... 
Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc., 
F.RS. 
Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, 
F.R.S. 
| Walter Gardiner, M.A......... 
E. B, Poulton, M.A., F.R.S.... 
Prof, C. Vernon Boys, F.R.S. 
Prof. L. C. Miall, F.L.S.,F.G.8. 
Prof. A. W. Riicker, M.A., 
F.R.S. 
Prof. A. M. Marshall, F.R.S. 
Prof. J. A. Ewing, M.A., F.RB.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, 8. P. Thompson, F.R.S. 
‘Prof. Perey F, Frankland, 
F.R.S. 
the Mines of Cornwalland Devon, 
The New Element, Gallium. 
Animal Intelligence. 
Dissociation, or Modern Ideas of 
Chemical Action. 
.| Radiant Matter. 
.| Degeneration. 
.| Primeval Man. 
Mental Imagery. 
The Rise and Progress of Paleon- 
tology. 
The Electric Discharge, its Forms 
and its Functions. 
Tides. 
Pelagic Life. 
Recent Researches 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 the Earth’s 
Crust. 
The Hardening and Tempering of 
Steel. 
How Plants maintain themselves in 
the Struggle for Existence. 
Mimicry. 
Quartz Fibres and their Applica- 
tions. 
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 
African Exploration. 
Historical Progress and Ideal So- 
cialism. 
Magnetism in Rotation. 
The Work of Pasteur and its various 
Developments. 
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