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EVENING DISCOURSES. 



Date and Place 



1865. 



Birming- 

 ham. 



Lecturers 



J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S 



1866. Nottingham William Huggins, F.R.S. 

 IS67. Dundee 



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



Archibald Geikie, F.R.S 



Alexander Herschel, F.R.A.S. 

 Norwich ... J. Fergusson, F.R.S 



1868. 



1869. Exeter 



1870. Liverpool... Prof. J. Tyndall.LL.D., F.R.S, 



Dr. W. Odling, F.R.S 



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

 J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. .. 



1871. Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton ... 



Prof .W. J. Macquorn Rankine. 



LL.D., F.R.S. 

 F. A. Abel, F.R.S 



E.B.Tylor, F.R.S. ... 



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

 Prof. W. K.Clifford 



Subject of Discourse 



1873. 

 1874. 



1875. 



1876. 

 1877. 



Bradford ... 

 Belfast 



Bristol .... 

 Glasgow . 

 Plymouth . 



1878. Dublin 



1879. 

 1880. 

 1881. 



1882. 

 1883. 



Sheffield 

 Swansea 

 York 



Southamp- 

 ton. 

 Southport . 



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

 Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart.. M. P., 



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. 

 W. Warington Smyth, M.A., 



F.R.S. 



Prof. Odling, F.R.S 



G. J. Romanes, F.L.S 



Prof. Dewar, F.R.S 



W. Crookes, F.R.S 



Prof . E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S. 

 Prof .W.Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 



Francis Galton, F.R.S 



Prof. Huxley, Sec. R.S 



W. Spottiswoode, Pres. R.S.... 



Prof. Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S. 

 Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S. 

 Prof. R. S. Ball, F.R.S 



Prof. J. G. McKendrick. 



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. 



Archaeology of the early Buddhist 

 Monuments. 



Reverse Chemical Actions. 



Vesuvius. 



The Physical Constitution of the 

 Stars and Nebulas. 



The Scientific Use of the Imagi- 

 nation. 



Stream-lines and Waves, in connec- 

 tion with Naval Architecture. 



Some Recent Investigations and Ap- 

 plications of Explesive 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. 



Physical Phenomena connected with 

 the Mines of Cornwall and 

 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 Palaeon- 

 tology. 



The Electric Discharge : its Forms 

 and its Functions. 



Tides. 



Pelagic Life. 



Recent Researches on the Distance 

 of the Sun. 



Galvanic and Animal Electricity. 



