Date and Place LIST OF EVENING LECTURES. Lecturer Subject of Discourse 1842. Manchester Charles Vignoles, F.R.S...... The Principles and Construction of 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). W. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S.... 1849. Birmingham Dr. Faraday, F.R.S. Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S. 1850. Edinburgh Prof. J. H. Bennett, M.D., F.R.S.E. Dr. Mantell, F.R.S. Metallurgical Operations of Swansea varying Velocities on Railways. Passage of the Blood through the minute vessels of Animals in connection with Nutrition. Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 1851. Ipswich Prof. R. Owen, M.D., F.R.S. Distinction between Plants and Ani ... G.B.Airy,F.R.S.,Astron. Royal 1853. Hull....... 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 Prof. J. Phillips, LL.D., F.R.S., Some peculiar Phenomena in the Geology and Physical Geography The present state of Photography. Progress of Researches in Terrestrial Characters of Species. Recent Discoveries in Assyria and Correlation of Physical Forces. Date and Place 1858. Leeds Lecturer ... 1857 Dublin...... 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. 1859. Aberdeen... Sir R. I. Murchison, D.C.L.... Rev. Dr. Robinson, F.R.S. ... 1860. Oxford...... Rev. Prof. Walker, F.R.S. Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N. 1861. Manchester Prof. W. A. Miller, M.A., F.R.S. G. B. Airy, F.R.S., Astron. Royal. 1862 Cambridge Prof. Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. Prof. Odling, F.R.S... 1863. Newcastle Prof. Williamson, F.R.S....... Subject of Discourse The Atlantic Telegraph. Physical Constitution of the Sun. The late Eclipse of the Sun. The Forms and Action of Water. The Chemistry of the Galvanic Bat- James Glaisher, F.R.S......... The Balloon Ascents made for the 1864. Bath......... Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S. Dr. Livingstone, F.R.S. 1865. Birmingham J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S........ British Association. The Chemical Action of Light. extent of the Coal-measures be- 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............. Dr. W. Odling, 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- 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. Huxley, F.R.S. W.Spottiswoode,LL.D., F.R.S. 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 1885. Aberdeen... Prof. W. G. Adams, F.R.S.... The Electric Light and Atmospheric Absorption. John Murray, F.R.S.E..........The Great Ocean Basins. 1886. Birmingham A. W. Rücker, M.A., F.R.S. Soap Bubbles. The Sense of Hearing. The Rate of Explosions in Gases. Explorations in Central Africa. Prof. A.W.Rücker, M.A.,F.R.S. Electrical Stress. 1892. Edinburgh Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, D.SC., F.R.S. Prof. J. A Ewing, M.A., F.R.S., 1893. Nottingham Prof. A. Smithells, B.Sc. Prof. Victor Horsley, F.R.S. 1894. Oxford...... J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.G.S. Prof. J.Shield Nicholson, M.A. Pedigrees. Magnetic Induction. Flame. The Discovery of the Physiology of the Nervous System. Experiences and Prospects of African Exploration. Historical Progress and Ideal Socialism. LECTURES TO THE OPERATIVE CLASSES. Date and Place 1868. Norwich 1867. Dundee...... Prof. J. Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. Matter and Force. Prof. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S. A Piece of Chalk. Prof. Miller, M.D., F.R.S. ... 1869. Exeter Experimental Illustrations of the modes of detecting the Composition of the Sun and other Heavenly Bodies by the Spectrum. Savages. W.Spottiswoode, LL.D.,F.R.S. Sunshine, Sea, and Sky. Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S. The Discovery of Oxygen. OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT THE OXFORD MEETING. SECTION A.-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. President.-Professor A. W. Rücker. Vice-Presidents.-R. E. Baynes, M.A.; Professor R. B. Clifton, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor E. B. Elliott, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor W. Esson, M.A., F.R.S.; R. T. Glazebrook, M.A., F.R.S.; Lord Kelvin, Pres.R.S.; Lord Rayleigh, Sec.R.S. Secretaries.-Professor W. H. Heaton, M.A.; Professor A. Lodge, M.A. (Recorder); J. Walker, M.A. SECTION B.-CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY. President.-Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S. Vice Presidents.-Sir F. A. Abel, Bart., K.C.B., F R.S.; Professor E. Frankland, D.C.L., F.R.S.; J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., F.RS.; Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., For.Sec.C.S.; Professor W. Odling, Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.C.S.; Professor J. Emerson Reynolds, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.; Sir Henry E. Roscoe, D.C.L., F.R.S. Secretaries.-H. A. Colefax, M.A., Ph.D.; W. W. Fisher, M.A.; Arthur Harden, M.Sc., Ph.D.; H. Forster Morley, D.Sc. (Recorder). SECTION C.-GEOLOGY. President.-L. Fletcher, M.A., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents.-Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S.; Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.; Professor A. H. Green, F.R.S.; Dr. H. Hicks, F.R.S.; Dr. E. Mojsisovics von Mojsvár; Professor A. F. Renard; Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, F.R.S.; H. Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. Secretaries.-F. A. Bather, M.A.; Alfred Harker, M.A.; Clement Reid; W. W. Watts, M.A. (Recorder). SECTION D.-BIOLOGY. President.-Professor I. Bayley Balfour, M.A., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents.-The Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor E. Ray Lankester, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S.; P. L. Sclater, Ph.D., F.R.S.; W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, M.A., F.R.S.; Rev. H. B. Tristram, M.A., LL.D., D.D., F.R.S.; Professor S. H. Vines, M.A., F.R.S. |