EOYAL INSTITUTION OF GEE AT BRITAIN, 



ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY, W. 



LECTURE ARRANGEMENTS BEFORE EASTER 1882. 



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



Christmas Lectures. 



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

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

 tures (adapted to a Juvenile Auditory) on " The Sun, the Moon, and the Planets * 

 (with illustrations by the electric light &c), on December 27 (Tuesday), Dec. 29, 

 31, 1881 ; January 3, 5, 7, 1882. 



The Fullerian Professor of Physiology, R.I. — Eleven Lectures, on Tues- 

 days, Jan. 17 to March 28. 



Henry N. Moseley, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. — Four Lectures on Corals; on 

 Thursdays, Jan. 19, 26, and Feb. 2, 9. 



Philip Lutley Sclater, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., Ph.D., Secretary of 

 the Zoological Society. — Four Lectures on the Geographical Distribution of 

 Animals ; on Thursdays, Feb. 16, 23, and March 2, 9. 



Professor Tyndall, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.R.I.— Three Lectures, on Thursdays, 

 March 16, 23, and 30. 



Ernst Patter, Esq., Principal Professor of the Pianoforte at the National 

 Training School for Music. — Four Lectures on Louis van Beethoven (with Illus- 

 trations on the Pianoforte) ; on Saturdays, Jan. 21, 28, and Feb. 4, 11. 



William Watkiss Lloyd, Esq., M.R.I. — Four Lectures on the Language, 

 Mythology, Construction, and Characteristics of the Iliad and Odyssey; on 

 Saturdays, Feb. 18, 25, and March 4, 11. 



Three Lectures ; on Saturdays, March 18, 25, and April 1. 



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

 Two Guineas. Tickets issued daily. 



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

 for any Lecture, for Half -a- Guinea. 



The Friday Evening Meetings will begin on January 20th, at 8 o'clock p.m. 

 Dr. Wm. Huggins will give a Discourse on Comets, at 9 p.m. Succeeding 

 Discourses will probably be given by Mr. R. S. Poole, Professor Odling, Pro- 

 fessor Frankland, Professor J. G. McKendrick, Captain Abney, Mr. A. Tylor, 

 Mr. J. W. Swan, Professor W. E. Ayrton, Mr. Wm. Spottiswoode, and other 

 gentlemen. To these Meetings Members and their Friends only are admitted. 



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., 



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THE SCIENTIFIC BODIES OF LONDON 

 FOR 1881-82. 



Taylob and Francis, Red Lion- Cimr^ Fleet Street, E.C. 



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