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LIST OF EVENING LECTURES. 



Date and Place 



1842. Manchester 



1843. Cork , 



1844. York, 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848, 

 1849. 

 1850. 



1851. 

 1852, 



Swansea ... 



Birmingham 



Edinburgh 



Ipswich . . . 

 Belfast 



1863. Hull. 



1854. 

 1855. 

 1856. 



Liverpool... 

 Glasgow ... 

 Cheltenham 



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Lecturer 



Charles Vignoles, F.R.S 



Sir M. L Brunei 



R. I. Murchison 



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



Prof. E. Forbes, F.R.S 



Dr. Robinson 



Charles Lyell, F.R.S 



Dr. Falconer, F.R.S 



G.B.Air}^F.R.S.,Astron.Royal 



R. L Murchison, F.R.S 



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



Charles Lyell, F.R.S 



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 Portlock, 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 



W. K. Grove, F.K.S 



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 ^gean 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. 



Properties of the Explosive Substance 

 discovered by Dr. Schonbein; also 

 some Researches of his own on tli e 

 Decomposition of Water by Heat. 



Shooting Stars. 



Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno- 

 mena. 



The Dodo (Didus 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 tlie 

 minute vessels of Animals in con- 

 nection 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 Eock-salt at 

 Carrickfergus, 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 result.^ of 

 Cuneiform Research up to the 

 present time. 



Correlation of Physical Forces. 



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