Ixxii 



KEPORT — 1897. 



Date and Place 



1854. Liverpool... 



1855. Glasgow ... 



1856. Cheltenham 



1857. Dublin 



1858. Leeds 



1859. Aberdeen... 



Lecturer 



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

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



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

 Lieut.-Col. H. Rawlinson .. 



1860. Oxford. 



1861. Manchester 



1863. Cambridge 

 1863. Newcastle 



1864. Bath 



1865. Birmingham 



1866. Nottingham 



1867. Dundee 



1868. Norwich .. 



1869. Exeter 



1870. Liverpool.. 



1871. Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton .. 



Col. Sir H. Rawlinson 



W. E. Grove, F.R.S 



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

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

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

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

 Sir R. L 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. 

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



William Hnggins, 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. Odlincr, 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.B., 



F.R.S. 

 Prof. W. K. ClifiEord 



Subject of Discourse 



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 



present 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 



raretied Media. 

 Physical Constitution of the Sun. 

 .\rctic 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 

 Dynamics. 



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 MicZ- 

 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 Modert> 

 Civilisation. 



Insect Metamorphosis. 



The Aims and Instruments of Scien- 

 tific Thought. 



