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 1871. 



Bath 



Birmingham 



Nottingham 

 Dundee 



Norwich .. 



Exeter 



Liverpool.. 

 Edinburgh 



1872. Brighton ... 



Lecturer 



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. R. Grove, F.R.S 



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

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

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

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

 Sir R. I. 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 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. W. Odling, F.R.S 



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

 J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. .. 



Prof. J. T}Tidall, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Prof .V/. J. ]\Tacquorn 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. CliflEord 



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 



rarefied Media. 

 Physical Constitution of the Sun, 

 Arctic 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 

 Dj'namics. 



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 Analj'sis 

 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 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 

 Civilisation. 



Insect Metamorphosis. 



The Aims and Instruments of Scien- 

 tific Thought. 



