LIST OF EVENING LECTURES. 



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LIST OF EVENING LECTUKES. 



Date and Place 



1842. Manchester 



1843, Cork , 



1844. York. 



1845. Cambridge 



1846. Southamp- 



ton. 



1847. Oxford. 



1848. Swansea ... 



1849. Birmingham 



1850. Edinburgh 



1851. Ipswich ... 



1852. Belfast 



1853. Hull, 



1854. Liverpool... 



1855. Glasgow ... 



1856. Cheltenham 



Lecturer 



Charles Vignoles, F.E.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.Airy,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.E.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.,AstroD. Royal 

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



F.R.S. 

 Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S. 



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

 F.G.S. 



Robert Hunt, F.R.S 



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

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



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

 Lieut.-Col. H. Rawlinson ... 



Col. Sir H. Rawlinson 



W.E. Grove, F.E.S 



Subject of Discourse 



The Principles and Construction o£ 

 Atmospheric Railways. 



The Thames Tunnel. 



The Geology of Russia. 



The Dinornis of New Zealand. 



The Distribution of Animal Life ia 

 the ^gean Sea. 



The Earl of Rosses 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 MississippL 



Properties of the ExplosiveSubstance 

 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 (Didus ineptiis). 



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 tlie Blood through the 

 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 

 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 Babj'lonian Antiquities 

 and Ethnology. 



Recent Discoveries in Assyria and 

 Babylonia, with the results of 

 Cuneiform Research up to the 

 present time. 



Correlation of Physical Forces. 



