ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN 



ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY, W. 



CHRISTMAS LECTURES. 

 Lecture Hour, Three o'clock p.m. 

 Professor Tyndall, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.R.L— Six Lectures (adapted to a 

 Juvenile Auditory) on Light and the Eye ; on December 28 (Thursday), Dec. 30, 

 1882 ; Jan. 2, 4, 6, 9, 1883. One Guinea the Course. ; Children under 16, Haif- 

 a-Guinea. 



AFTERNOON LECTURES BEFORE EASTER, 1883. 

 Lecture Hour, Three o'clock, p.m. 



William Crawford Williamson, Esq., F.R.S., Professor of Natural His- 

 tory, Anatomy and Physiology, Owens College, Manchester. — Five Lectures on 

 the ' Primaeval Ancestors of Existing Vegetation, and their Bearing upon the 

 Doctrine cf Evolution ; on Tuesdays, Jan. 16, 23, 30, and Feb. 6, 13. Half-a- 

 Guinea. 



Robert Stawell Ball, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., Andrews Professor of Astro- 

 nomy in the University of Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland. — Four Lec- 

 tures on the Supreme Discoveries in Astronomy ; on Tuesdays, Feb. 20, 27, and 

 March 6, 13. Half-a-Guinea. 



Professor Dewar, M.A., F.R.S., M.R.L — Nine Lectures on the Spectroscope 

 and its Applications; on Thursdays, Jan. 18 to March 15. One Guinea. 



11. Bosworth Smith, Esq., M.A. — Four Lectures on Episodes in the Life of 

 Lord Lawrence; on Saturdays, Jan. 20,27, and Feb. 3, 10. Half-a-Guinea. 



William H. Stone, M.D. — Three Lectures on Singing, Speaking, and Stam- 

 mering; on Saturdays, Feb. 17,24, and March 3. Half-a-Guinea. 



H. Heathcote STATHAM,Esq. — Two Lectures on Music as a Form of Artistic 

 Expression; on Saturdays, March 10, 17. Half-a-Guinea. 



Subscription (to Non-Members) to all the Courses daring the Season, 

 Two Guineas. Tickets issued daily. 



Members may purchase not less than Three Single Lecture Tickets, available 

 tor any Lecture, for Half-a-Guinea. 



The Friday Evening Meetings will begin on January 19th, at 8 p.m., 

 when Mr. R. Bosworth Smith will give a Discourse on the Early Life of Lord 

 Lawrence in India at 9 p.m. Succeeding Discourses will probably be given by 

 Mr. G. J. Romanes, Sir William Thomson, Mr. M. D. Conway, Professor W. C. 

 Williamson, Mr. W. H. Pollock, Professor Tyndall, and other gentlemen. To 

 these Meetings Members and their Friends only are admitted. 



The Afternoon Courses after Easter will be given by Professors Tyndall, 

 McKendrick, A. Geikie, and Turner (of St. Petersburg) ; and Friday Evening 

 1 )iscourses from April 6th to June 8th inclusive. 



Persons desirous of becoming Members are requested to apply to the Secretary. 

 When proposed, they are immediately admitted to all the Lectures, to the Friday 

 Evening Meetings, and to the Library, and Reading Rooms; and their Families 

 are admitted to the Lectures at a reduced charge. Payment: — First Year, Ten 

 Guineas; afterwards, Five Guineas a Year ; or a composition of Sixty Guineas. 



Now ready, Price Qd., post-free 7d., 



TAYLOR'S CALENDAR OF MEETINGS 



OF 



THE SCIENTIFIC BODIES OF LONDON 

 FOR 1882-83. 



Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E.C. 



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