EEPORT 1882. 



Date and Place 



1863. Newcastle 



(ft'Mf.) 



1864. Bath 



Lecturer 



1865. Birmingham 



1866. Nottingham 



1867. Dundee. 



1868. Norwich ... 



1869. Exeter 



1870. Liverpool... 



1871. Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton ... 



1873. Bradford ... 



1874. Belfast 



1878. Dublin 



1881. York. 



1875. Bristol 



1876. Glasgow ... 



1877. Plymouth.., 



1879. Sheffield .. 



1880. Swansea .. 



James Glaisher, F.E.S... 



Prof, Eoscoe, F.R.S 



Dr. Livingstone, F.ll.S. 

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



William HiTggins, 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 Lockj-er, F.R.S.... 



Prof. J. Tjmdall, 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.B., 



F.R.S. 

 Prof. W. K. Clifford 



Subject of Discourse 



1883. Southamp- 

 ton. 



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

 Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. 

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



F.R.S. 

 Prof. Huxley, F.R.S 



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



F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S 



Prof. Tait, F.R.S.E 



Sir Wyville 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 



W. Crookes, F.R.S 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S. 

 Prof. AV. Boyd Dawkins, 

 F.R.S. 



Francis Galton, F.R.S 



Prof. Huxley, Sec. R.S. 



W. Spottiswoode, Pres. R.S. 



Prof. Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S. 

 Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S. 



The Balloon Ascents made for the 

 British Association. 



The Chemical Action of Light. 



Recent Travels in Africa. 



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. 



Archieology of the early Buddhist 

 Monuments. 



Reverse Chemical Actions. 



Vesuvius. 



The Physical Constitution of the 

 Stars and Nebulse. 



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 Metamorpliosis. 



The Aims and Instruments of Scien- 



titic Thought. 

 Coal and Coal Plants. 

 Molecules. 

 Common Wild Flowers considered 



in relation to Insects. 

 The Hj'pothesis that Animals are 



Automata, and its History. 

 The Colours of Polarized Light. 

 Railway Safety Apijliances. 

 B^orce. 



The Challenficr 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. 

 Radiant Matter. 

 Degeneration. 

 Primeval Man. 



Mental Imagery. 



The Rise and Progress of Palaeon- 

 tology. 



The Electric Discharge, its Forms 

 and its Fimctions. 



Tides. 



Pelagic Life. 



