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REPORT 1873. 



List of Evening Lectures. 



Date and Place. 



1842. Manchester 



1843. Cork , 



1844. York, 



1845. Cambridge ., 



1846. Southampton 



1847. Oxford 



1848. Swansea . 



1849. Birmingham 



1850. Edinburgh. 



1851. Ipswich 



1852. Belfast ... 



1853. Hull 



Lecturer. 



Charles Yignoles, F.E.S. . 



Sir M. L Brunei 



E. I. Murchison 



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., Astron.Eoyal 



E. I. Murchison, F.E.S 



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



Charles Lyoll, 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. WiUis, M.A., F.E.S 



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

 F.E.S.E. 



Dr. Mantell, F.E.S 



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



G. B. Airy, P.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 



Subject of Discourse. 



The Principles and Constmiction of 

 Atmospheric Eailways. 



The Thames Tunnel. 



The Geology of llussia. 



The Dinornis of New Zealand. 



The Distribution of Animal Life in 

 the jEgean 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 Misi?issippi. 



Properties of the Explosive substance 

 discovered by Dr. Schonbein ; also 

 some Eesearches of his own on the 

 Decomposition of Water by Heat. 



Shooting-stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo (Bidus inepfus). 



Metallurgical operations of Swansea 

 and its neighboin'liood. 



Eecent Microscopical Discoveries. 



Mr. Gassiot's Battery. 



Transit of different Weights with 



_ varying velocities on Eailwaj's. 



Passage of the Blood through the 

 minute vessels of Animals in cou- 

 nexion with Nutrition. 



Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 



Distinction between Plants and Ani- 

 mals, and their changes of Form. 



Total Solar Eclipse of July 28, 1851. 



Eecent discoveries in the properties 

 of Light. 



Eecent discovery of Eock-.salt at Car- 

 rickfergus, and geological and pr;ic- 

 ticalconsiderationseonnectedwith it. 

 Some peculiar phenomena in the Geo- 

 logy and Physical Geography of 

 Yorkshire. 



Tlie present stato of Photography. 



