Date and Place Presidents Secretaries 1883. Southport James Brunlees, F.R.S.E., A. T. Atchison, E. Rigg, H. T. Wood. Pres.Inst.C.E. 1884. Montreal... Sir F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S., A. T. Atchison, W. B. Dawson, J. V.P. Inst.C.E. Kennedy, H. T. Wood. A. T. Atchison, F. G. Ogilvie, E. C. W. Cooke, J. Kenward, W. B. C. F. Budenberg, W. B. Marshall, 1888. Bath......... W. H. Preece, F.R.S., C. W. Cooke, W. B. Marshall, E. Rigg, P. K. Stothert. M.Inst.C.E. 1889. Newcastle- W. Anderson, M.Inst.C.E. ... C. W. Cooke, W. B. Marshall, Hon. 1892. Edinburgh Prof. W. C. Unwin, F.R.S., C. W. Cooke, W. B. Marshall, W. C. 1893. Nottingham Jeremiah Head, M.Inst.C.E., C. W. Cooke, W. B. Marshall, E. Rigg, H. Talbot. F.C.S. ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE. SECTION H.-ANTHROPOLOGY. 1884. Montreal... E. B. Tylor, D.C.L., F.R.S.... G. W. Bloxam, W. Hurst. 1885. Aberdeen... Francis Galton, M.A., F.R.S. G. W. Bloxam, Dr. J. G. Garson, W. G. W. Bloxam, Dr. J. G. Garson, W. G. W. Bloxam, Dr. J. G. Garson, Dr. Pitt-Rivers, G. W. Bloxam, Dr. J. G. Garson, J. D.C.L., F.R.S. 1889. Newcastle- Prof. Sir W. Turner, M.B., upon-Tyne LL.D., F.R.S. 1890. Leeds Dr. J. Evans, Treas. R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. 1891. Cardiff...... Prof. F. Max Müller, M.A. ... 1892. Edinburgh Prof. A. Macalister, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. 1893. Nottingham Dr. R. Munro, M.A., F.R.S.E. G. W. Bloxam, Dr. J. G. Garson, Dr. G. W. Bloxam, Prof. R. Howden, H. G. W. Bloxam, Dr. D. Hepburn, Prof. Date and Place LIST OF EVENING LECTURES. Lecturer Subject of Discourse 1842. Manchester Charles Vignoles, F.R.S...... The Principles and Construction of Atmospheric Railways. The Dinornis of New Zealand. The Distribution of Animal Life in the Egean Sea. The Earl of Rosse's Telescope. The Gigantic Tortoise of the Siwalik Progress of Terrestrial Magnetism. Geology of Russia. Fossil Mammalia of the British Isles. Valley and Delta of the Mississippi. Properties of the Explosive substance discovered by Dr. Schönbein; also some Researches of his own on the Decomposition of Water by Heat. 1847. Oxford...... Rev. Prof. B. Powell, F.R.S. Shooting Stars. Prof. M. Faraday, F.R.S....... Magnetic and Diamagnetic Pheno mena. Hugh E. Strickland, F.G.S....The Dodo (Didus ineptus). 1848. Swansea John Percy, M.D., F.R.S....... Metallurgical Operations of Swansea and its Neighbourhood. Recent Microscopical Discoveries. Mr. Gassiot's Battery. Transit of different Weights with varying Velocities on Railways. Passage of the Blood through the minute vessels of Animals in connection with Nutrition. Extinct Birds of New Zealand. Distinction between Plants and Ani mals, and their changes of Form. Total Solar Eclipse of July 28, 1851. Recent Discoveries in the properties of Light. Recent Discovery of Rock-salt at Carrickfergus, and geological and practical considerations connected with it. 1853. Hull......... Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D., F.R.S., Some peculiar Phenomena in the 1866. Nottingham William Huggins, F.R.S....... The results of Spectrum Analysis applied to Heavenly Bodies. Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S....... Insular Floras. 1867. Dundee...... Archibald Geikie, F.R.S....... Alexander Herschel, F.R.A.S. J. Fergusson, F.R.S............. 1870. Liverpool... Prof. J. Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. Prof. W. J. Macquorn Rankine, 1871. Edinburgh F. A. Abel, F.R.S....... E. B. Tylor, F.R.S. The Geological Origin of the present The present state of Knowledge re garding Meteors and Meteorites. Archæology of the early Buddhist Monuments. Reverse Chemical Actions. The Physical Constitution of the The Scientific Use of the Imagina- Stream-lines and Waves, in connection with Naval Architecture. Some recent Investigations and Applications of Explosive Agents. The Relation of Primitive to Modern Civilisation. Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B., Insect Metamorphosis. F.R.S. Prof. W. K. Clifford .... Prof. W. C.Williamson, F.R.S. Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. 1874. Belfast...... Sir John Lubbock, Bart..M.P., F.R.S. Prof. Huxley, F.R.S. W.Spottiswoode, LL.D.,F.R.S. Prof. Tait, F.R.S.E. The Aims and Instruments of Scien- Coal and Coal Plants. Common Wild Flowers considered The Hypothesis that Animals are Sir Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. The Challenger Expedition. Date and Place Lecturer Subject of Discourse 1877. Plymouth... W. Warington Smyth, M.A., The Physical Phenomena connected with the Mines of Cornwall and Devon. The new Element, Gallium. Animal Intelligence. Dissociation, or Modern Ideas of Chemical Action. Radiant Matter. Degeneration. Primeval Man. Mental Imagery. The Rise and Progress of Palæon. tology. The Electric Discharge, its Forms and its Functions. Tides. Pelagic Life. Recent Researches on the Distance of the Sun. McKendrick, Galvanic and Animal Electricity. Prof. A.W.Rücker, M.A.,F.R.S. Electrical Stress. 1892. Edinburgh Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, Pedigrees. 1893. Nottingham Prof. Victor Horsley, F.R.S. The Discovery of the Physiology of the Nervous System. 1893. d Sir F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S. ... Subject of Discourse Matter and Force. A Piece of Chalk. Experimental Illustrations of the modes of detecting the Composition of the Sun and other Heavenly Bodies by the Spectrum. Savages. Sunshine, Sea, and Sky. The Discovery of Oxygen. Telegraphy and the Telephone. Unwritten History, and how to read it. Talking by Electricity-Telephones. 1883. Southport The Nature of Explosions. 1886. Birmingham Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, The Colours of Metals and their |