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report — 1879. 



List of Evening Lectures. 



Date and Place 



1842. Manchester 



1843. Cork 



1844. York . 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. Swansea ... 



1849. Birmingham 



1850. Edinburgh 



1851. Ipswich ... 



1852. Belfast 



1853. Hull, 



1854. Liverpool... 



1855. Glasgow ... 



1856. Cheltenham 



Lecturer 



Charles Vignoles, F.R.S 



Sir M. I. Brunei 



R. I. Murchison 



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



Prof. E. Forbes, F.E.S 



Dr. Robinson 



Charles LyeU, F.R.S 



Dr. Falconer, F.R.S 



G.B.Airy,F.R.S.,Astron.Royal 



R. I. Murchison, F.R.S 



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



Charles Lyell, F.R.S 



W. R. Grove, F.E.S 



Rev. Prof. P.. Powell, F.R.S. 

 Prof. M. Faraday, F.R.S 



Hugh E. Strickland, F.G.S.... 

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



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



Dr. Faraday, F.R.S 



Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S. 



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

 F.R.S. E. 



Dr. Mantell, F.E.S 



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



G.B.Airy,F.B.S.,Astron. Eoyal 

 Prof. G. G. Stokes, D.C.L., 



F.R.S. 

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



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

 F.G.S. 



Robert Hunt, F.E.S 



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

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



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

 Lieut.-Col. H. Rawlinson ... 



Col. Sir H. Rawliuson 



1857. Dublin. 



W. R. Grove, F.R.S 



Prof. W. Thomson, F.R.S. .. 

 Rev. Dr. Livingstone, D.C.L. 



Subject of Discourse 



The Principles and Construction of 

 Atmospheric Railways. 



The Thames Tunnel. 



The Geology of Russia. 



The Dinornis of New Zealand. 



The Distribution of Animal Life in 

 the iEgean Sea. 



The Earl of Rosse's Telescope. 



Geology of North America. 



The Gigantic Tortoise of the Siwalik 

 Hills in India. 



Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism. 



Geology of Russia. 



Fossil Mammalia of the British Isles. 



Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. 



Propertiesof the Explosive substance 

 discovered by Dr. Sehonbein; also 

 some Researches of his own on the 

 Decomposition of Water by Heat. 



Shooting Stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo {Didiu: ineptus). 



Metallurgical Operations of Swansea 

 and its neighbourhood. 



Recent Microscopical Discoveries. 



Mr. Gassiot's Battery. 



Transit of different Weights with 

 varying velocities on Railways. 



Passage of the Blood through 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 Solar Eclipse of July 28, 1851. 



Recent discoveries in the properties 

 of Light. 



Recent discovery of Rock-salt at 

 Carrickf ergus, and geological and 

 practical considerations connected 

 with it. 



Some peculiar Phenomena in the 

 Geology and Physical Geography 

 of Yorkshire. 



The present state of Photography. 



Anthropomorphous Apes. 



Progress of researches in Terrestrial 

 Magnetism. 



Characters of Species. 



Assyrian and Babylonian Antiquities 

 and Ethnology. 



Recent Discoveries in Assyria and 

 Babylonia, with the results of 

 Cuneiform research up to the pre- 

 sent time. 



Correlation of Physical Forces. 



The Atlantic Telegraph. 



Recent Discoveries in Africa. 



