LIST OF EVENING LECTURES. 



Xli 



Pate and Place. 



1855. Glasgow , 



1856. Clieltenbam 



1857. Dublin 



1858. Leeds 



1859. Aberdeen .. 



Lecturer. 



Subject of Discourse. 



Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S. 

 Lieut.-Col. H. Eawlinson .. 



Col. Sir H. Eawlinson , 



18C0. Oxford 



1861. Mancbester 



1862. Cambridge 



1863. Newcastle- 



on-Tyne. 



1864. Batb 



1865. Birmingham 



1866. Nottingham. 



1867. Dundee.. 



1868. Norwich ..., 



1869. Exeter 



1870. LiTerpool .. 



1871. Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton .. 



W. E. Grove, E.R.S 



Prof. W. Thomson, E.E.S 



Eev. Di-. Livingstone, D.C.L. ... 

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

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



SirE.I.Murcbison, D.C.L 



Eev. Dr. Eobinson, F.E.S 



Eev. Prof. Walker, F.E.S 



C.Tptain Sherard Osborn, E.N. 

 Prof. W. A. Miller, M.A., F.E.S 

 G. B. Airy, F.R.S., ^stron.Eoy. 

 Prof. TvndaU, LL.D., F.E.S. ... 



Prof. O'dling, F.E.S 



Prof. WilUamson, F.E.S 



James Glaisher, F.E.S. 



Prof. Eoscoe, F.E.S 



Dr. Livingstone, F.E.S. 

 J. Beete Jukes, F.E.S. .< 



William Huggins, F.E.S 



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



Archibald Geikie, F.E.S 



Alexander Herschel, F.E.A.S 



J. Fergiisson, F.E.S 



Dr. W. Odling, F.E.S 



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

 J. Norman Lockyer, F.E.S 



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

 Prof. W. J. Macquorn Eankine 



LL.D., F.E.S. 

 P. A. Abel, F.E.S 



E. B. Tylor, F.E.S 



Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.p. 



FES 

 Prof. W. K. Clifford 



Characters of Species. 



Assyrian and Babylonian Antiquities 



and Ethnology. 

 Eecent discoveries in Assyria and 

 Babylonia, with the resultsof Cunei- 

 form research up to the present 

 time. 

 Correlation of Physical Forces. 

 The Atlantic Telegraph. 

 Recent discoveries in Africa. 

 The Ironstones of Yorkshire. 

 The Fossil Mammalia of Austraha. 

 Geology of the Northern Highlands. 

 Electrical Discharges in highly rare- 

 fied 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 Bat- 

 tery considered in relation to Dy- 

 namics. 

 The Balloon Ascents made for the 



British Association. 

 The Chemical Action of Light. 

 Eecent Travels in Africa. 

 Probabilities as to the position and 

 extent of the Coal-measures beneath 

 the red rocks of the Midland Coun- 

 ties. 

 The results of Spectrum Analysis 



applied to Heavenly Bodies. 

 Insular Floras. 

 The Geological origin of the present 



Scenery of Scotland. 

 The pi-esent state of knowledge re- 

 garding Meteors and Meteorites. 

 Archteology of the early Buddhist 



Monuments. 

 Eeverse Chemical Actions. 

 Vesuvius. 

 The Physical Constitution of the 



Stars and Nebulaj. 

 The Scientific Use of the Imagination. 

 Stream-lines and ^'S^aves, in connexion 



with Naval Architecture. 

 On some recent investigations and ap- 

 plications of Explosive Agents. 

 On the Eelation of Primitive to Mo- 

 dern Civilization. 

 Insect Metamorphosis. 

 The Aims and Instruments of Scien- 

 tific Thought. 



