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“ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, i 
| ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY, W. ON 
Christmas Lectures. 
(Lecrure Honor, 3 o’clock p.m.) 
> Prornsson Tynpart, D.C.L, F.R.S., M.R.1.—Six Lectures (adapted to a ju- 
venile auditory) on Light and the Eye; on Dec. 28 (Thursday), Dec. 30, 
1882; Jan. 2, 4,6, 9, 1888, One Guinea the Course ; Children under 16 Half 
pC 
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Afternoon viens before Easter, 1883. 
(LEcTURE Honor, 8 o'clock p.m.) 
Wiii1am CrawrorpD WILLiAMson, Hsq., F.R.S., Professor of Natural Histiney, mS 
Anatomy, and Physiology, Owen’s College, Manchester. —Five Lectures on 
the Primeval Ancestors of Existing Vegetation, and their Bearing upon the 
Doctrine of Evolution ; on Tuesdays, Jan. 16, 23, 30, and Feb. 6, 13. Bp 
Guinea. 
- Roperr SrawEtt Batt, Esq., LL.D., FR. S. Annies Professor of Astonany . 
in the University of Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland.—Four Lectures - 
on the Supreme Discoveries in Astronomy; on Tuesdays, Feb. 20, 27, and 
March 6,18. Half-a-Guinea. 
Prorrssorn Dewar, M.A., F.R.S., M.R.I.—Nine Lectures on the Spee. 
scope and its Applications ; ; on Thursdays, Jan. 18 to March 15. One Guinea. 
R. BoswortxH Smita, Esq., M.A.—Four Lectures on Episodes i in the Life of 
Lord Lawrence; on Saturdays, Jan. 20, 27, and Feb.3, 10. Half-a-Guinea. | 
Wim H. Stonz, M.D.—Three Lectures on Singing, Speaking, and Stam- 
mering ; on Saturdays, Feb. 17, 24, and March 38. Half-a-Guinea. 
H. Hearucotr Starnam, Esq—Two Lectures on Musie as a Form of 
Artistic Expression ; on Saturdays, March 10, 17. ass ~a-Guined. 
eee (to non-Members) to all the Courses during the ‘Season, Two Gruneas. 
Tickets issued Daily. 
Members may purchase not less than Three Single Lecture Tickets, available 
for any Lecture, for Half-a- Guinea. 
The Fripay Evenrne Mzetines will begin on January 19th, at 8 p.m, 
when Mr. R. Bosworth Smith will give a Discourse on the Early Life of Lord 
Lawrence in India, at 9 p.m. Succeeding Discourses will probably be given by 
Mr, G. J. Romanes, Sir William Thomson, Mr. M. D. Conway, Professor W. C. 
Williamson, Mr. W. H. Pollock, Professor Tyndall, and other gentlemen. To 
these Meetings Members and their Friends only are ‘admitted. 
The ArrERNooN CouRSES AFTER EASTER will be given by Professors Tyn- 
dall, McKendrick, A. Geikie, and Turner (of St. Petersburgh) ; ; and Fray 
Eventne Discourses from April 6th to June 8th, inclusive. 
Persons desirous of becoming Members are requested to apply to the Seat 
tary. When proposed, they are immediately admitted to all the Lectures, to the 
Friday Evening Meetings, and to the Library and Reading Rooms; and their 
Families are admitted to the Lectures at a reduced charge. Payment :-—First 
Year, Ten Guineas; afterwards, Five cee a Year; ora composition of Sixty 
Guineas. vane 
Price 6d. , post- -free 7d., 
TAYLOR'S CALENDAR OF MEETINGS 
OF 
THE SCIENTIFIC BODIES OF LONDON for 1882-83. 
Tayior and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E.C. 
