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REPOET — 1893. 



Date and Place 



1837 

 1858. 

 1859. 



1860. 

 1861. 



1862 

 1863. 



1864. 

 1865. 



1866. 

 1867. 



Lecturer 



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



jEev. Dr. Livingstone, D.C.L. 

 Leeds 'Prof. J. PhiIlips,LL.D.,F.R.S. 



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

 Aberdeen... , Sir R. I. Murchison, D.C.L... . 

 Rev. Dr. Robinson, F.R.S. ... 



Oxford |Rev. Prof. Walker, F.R.S. ... 



I Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N. 

 Manchester | 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 



Cambridge 

 Newcastle 



Bath. 



James Glaisher, F.R.S.. 



Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S 



Dr. Livingstone, F.R.S. ... 

 Birmingham J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S 



Nottingham 

 Dundee 



1868. Norwich . 



1869, 



1870 



Exeter 



1871. 



1872. 



1873. 

 1871. 



1875. 

 1876. 



Liverpool... 



Edinburgh 



Brighton .., 



Bradford ... 

 Belfast 



Bristol 



Glasgow ... 



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. AV. 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.B., 



F.R.S. 

 Prof. W. K. Clifford 



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 



:SirWyville Thomson, F.R.S. 



Subject of Discourse 



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 



rarefied Media. 

 Physical Constitution of the Sun. 

 Arctic Discovery. 

 Spectrum Analysis. 

 The late Eclipse of the Sun. 



The Forms and Ad ion 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 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. 



ArchiBology of the early Buddhist 

 Monuments. 



Reverse Chemical Actions. 



Vesuvius. 



The Physical Constitution of the 

 Stars and Nebulfe. 



The Scientific Use of the Imagina- 

 tion. 



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 

 Civilisation. 



Insect Metamorphosis. 



The Aims and Instruments of Scien- 

 tific Thought. 



Coal and Coal Plants. 



Molecules. 



Common Wild Flowers considered 

 in relation to Insects. 



The H^-pothesis that Animals are 

 Automata, and its History. 



The Colours of Polarised Light. 



Railway Safety Appliances, 



Force. 



The Challenger Expedition. 



