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REPORT 18/3. 



Date of Place. 



Presidents. 



Secretaries. 



1869. Exeter 



1870. Liverpool . . . 



1871. Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton ... 



C. W. Siemens, F.E.S 



Chas. B. Vignoles, C.E., F.E.S. 



Prof. Fleeming Jenkin, F.E.S... . 



P. J. Bramwell, C.E 



P. Le Neve Foster, H. Bauerman. 

 H. Bauerman, P. Le Neve Foster, T. 



King, J. N. Shoolbred. 

 H. Bauerman, Alexander Leslie, J. P. 



Smith. 

 H. M. Brunei, P. Le Neve Foster, 



J. CI. Gamble, J. N. Shoolbred. 



List of Evening Lectures. 



Date and Place. 



Lecturer. 



Subject of Discourse. 



18i2. Manchester 



1843. Cork , 



Charles Vignoles, F.E.S, . 



1844. York , 



1845. Cambridge.. 



1846. Southampton 



1847. Oxford 



1848. Swansea 



1849. Birmingham 



1850. Edinburgh. 



1851. Ipswich 



1852. Belfast 



1853. Hull 



1854. Liverpool .., 



SirM. L Brunei 



R. I. Murchi-son 



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

 Prof. E. Forbes, F.E.S. .. 



Dr. Eobinson .' 



Charles Lyell, F.E.S 



Dr. Falconer, F.E.S 



G. B. Airy, F.E.S., A.stron.Eoyal 



E. L Murchison, F.E.S 



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



Charles Lyell, F.E.S 



W. E. Grove, F.E.S 



Eev. Prof B. Powell, F.E.S. 

 Prof. M. Faraday, F.E.S. ... 



Hugh E. Strickland, F.G.S. 

 John Percy, M.D., F.E.S. ... 



W. Carpenter, M.D., F.E.S. 



Dr. Faraday, F.E.S 



Eev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.E.S. 



Prof. J. H. Bennett, M.D., 

 F.E.S.E. 



Dr. Mautell, F.E.S 



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



G. B. Airy, F.E.S., Astron. Eoy 

 Prof G.G. Stokes, D.C.L., F.E.S 



Colonel Portlock, E.E., F.E.S. 



Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D., F.E.S., 

 F.G.S. 



Eobert Hunt, F.E.S 



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

 Col. E. Sabine, V.P.E.S 



The Principles and Construction of 

 Atmospheric Eailways. 



The Thames Tunnel. 



The G eology of Eussia. 



The Dinornis of New Zealand. 



The Distribution of Animal Life in 

 the iEgean Sea. 



The Earl of Eosse's Telescope. 



Geology of North America. 



The Gigantic Tortoise of the Siwalik 

 Hills in India. 



Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism. 



Geology of Eussia. 



Fossil Mammalia of the British Isles. 



Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. 



Properties of the Explosive substance 

 discovered by Dr. Schonbein ; also 

 some Eesearches of his own on the 

 Decomposition of Water by Heat. 



Shooting- star.<!. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo (Didtis inepf.us).'^ 



Metallurgical operations of Swansea 

 and its neighbourhood. 



Eecent Microscopical Discoveries. 



Mr. Gassiot's Battery. 



Transit of different Weights with 

 varying velocities on Eailways. 



Passage of the Blood througli the 

 minute vessels of Animals in con- 

 nexion with Nutrition. 



Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 



Distinction between Plants and Ani- 

 mals, and their changes of Form. 



Total Sol.ir Eclipse of July 28, 1851. 



Eecent discoveries in the properties 

 of Light. 



Eecent discovery of Eock-salt at Car- 

 rickfergus, and geological and prac- 

 tical considerations connected with it. 

 Some peculiar phenomena in the Geo- 

 logy and Physical Geography of 

 Yorkshire. 



The present state of Photography. 



Anthropomorphous Apes. 



Progress of researches in Terrestrial 

 Magnetism. 



