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BEPORT — 1878. 



Date and Place 



1846. Southamp- 

 ton — cont. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. Swansea ... 



1849. Birmingham 



1850. Edinburgh 



1851. Ipswich ... 



1852. Belfast 



1853. Hull. 



1854. Liverpool... 



1855. Glasgow ... 



1856. Cheltenham 



1857. Dublin 



1858. Leeds 



1859. Aberdeen... 



Lecturer 



1860. Oxford 



1861. Manchester 



1862. Cambridge 



1863. Newcastle 



W. R. Grove, F.R.S 



Rev. Prof. B. 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.R.S 



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



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

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



F.R.S. 

 Colonel Portlo;k, R.E., F.R.S. 



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

 F.G.S. 



Robert Hunt, F.R.S 



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

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



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

 Lieut.-Col. H. Rawlinson ... 



Col. Sir H. Rawlinson 



1864. Bath. 



W. R. Grove, F.R.S 



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

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

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

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

 Sir R. I. Murchison, D.C.L... . 

 Rev. Dr. Robinson, F.R.S. ... 



Rev. Prof. Walker, F.R.S. ... 

 Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N. 

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

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

 Prof. Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Prof. Odling, F.R.S 



Prof. Williamson, F.R.S 



James Glaisher, F.R.S. 



Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S 



Dr. Livingstone, F.R.S. 



Subject of Discourse 



Properties of the Explosive substance 

 discovered by Dr. Schonbein ; also 

 some Researches of his own on the 

 Decomposition of Water by Heat. 



Shooting Stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo (Bidus 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 

 pract ical 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. 



The Ironstones of Yorkshire. 



The Fossil Mammalia of Australia. 



Geology of the Northern Highlands. 



Electrical Discharges in highly 

 rarefied 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. 



Recent Travels in Africa. 



