LECTURES TO THE OPERATIVE CLASSES. 



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Date and Place 



1865. Birmingham 



1866, 

 1867. 



1868. 

 1869. 

 1870. 



1871. 



Nottingham 

 Dundee 



Norwich ... 

 Exeter ...... 



Liverpool... 

 Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton .. 





1873. 

 1874. 



1875. 

 1876. 

 1877. 



Bradford 

 Belfast ... 



Bristol 



Glasgow . . . 

 Plymouth.., 



1878. Dublin 



1867. Dundee.. 



1868. Norwich 



1869. Exeter .. 



Lecturer 



1870. Liverpool . 



1872. Brighton . 



1873. Bradford . 



1874. Belfast.... 



1875. Bristol .... 



1876. Glasgow . 



1877. Plymouth . 



1S78. 



J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S. , 



William Huggins, F. R. S. ... 



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



Archibald Geikie, F.R.S 



Alexander Herschel, F.R.A.S. 



J. Fergusson, F.R.S 



Dr. W. Odling, F.R.S 



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

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



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

 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.D., 



Prof. W K. Clifford 



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

 Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. 

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



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 



Subject of Discourse 



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 Nebulae. 



The Scientific Use of the Imagination. 



Stream-lines and Waves, in connec- 

 tion with Naval Architecture. 



Some recent investigations and ap- 

 plications of Explosive Agents. 



The Relation of Primitive to Modern 

 Civilization. 



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 Polarized Light. 



Railway Safety Appliances. 



Force. 



The Challenger Expedition. 



The Physical Phenomena connected 

 with the Mines of Cornwall and 

 Devon. 



The new Element, Gallium. 



Animal Intelligence. 



Dissociation, or Modern Ideas of 



' Chemical Action. 



Lectures to the Operative Glasses. 



Matter and Force. 

 A Piece of Chalk. 

 Experimental illustrations 



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

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

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



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



F.R.S. 

 W.Spottiswoode,LL.D.,F.R.S. 

 C. W. Siemens, D.C.L.,F.R.S. 



Prof. Odling, F.R.S 



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

 Commander Cameron, C.B., 



R.N. 



W. H. Preece 



c 



of the 

 modes of detecting the Composi- 

 tion of the Sun and other Heavenly 

 Bodies by the Spectrum. 

 Savages. 



Sunshine, Sea, and Sky. 



Fuel. 



The Discovery of Oxygen, 



A Piece of Limestone. 



A Journey through Africa. 



Telegraphy and the Telephone. 



