Portal:Rede Lecture

1858-1899

 * 1859 Richard Owen On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia
 * 1860 John Phillips Life on the earth, its origin and succession
 * 1861 Robert Willis The social and architectural history of Trinity College
 * 1862 Edward Sabine The cosmical features of terrestrial magnetism
 * 1863 David Thomas Ansted The correlation of the natural history sciences
 * 1864 George Biddell Airy The late observations of total eclipses of the sun, and the inferences from them
 * 1865 John Tyndall On Radiation
 * 1866 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin The dissipation of energy
 * 1867 John Ruskin The relation of national ethics to national art
 * 1868 Friedrich Max Müller On the stratification of language
 * 1869 William Huggins On the results of spectrum analysis of the heavenly bodies
 * 1870 William Allen Miller On some chemical processes of forming organic compounds, with illustrations from the coal tar colours
 * 1871 Joseph Norman Lockyer Recent solar discoveries
 * 1872 Edward Augustus Freeman The Unity of History
 * 1873 Peter Guthrie Tait Thermo-electricity
 * 1874 Samuel White Baker Slavery
 * 1875 Henry James Sumner Maine The effects of observation of India upon modern European thought
 * 1876 Samuel Birch The monumental history of ancient Egypt
 * 1877 Charles Wyville Thomson On some of the results of the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger
 * 1878 James Clerk Maxwell On the telephone
 * 1879 William Henry Dallinger 'The origin of life, illustrated by the life histories of the least and lowest organisms in nature'
 * 1880 George Murray Humphry 'Man, prehistoric, present, future'
 * 1881 William Muir The early Caliphate
 * 1882 Matthew Arnold Literature and Science
 * 1883 Thomas Henry Huxley 'The origin of the existing forms of animal life: construction or evolution?
 * 1884 Francis Galton The Measurement of Human Faculty
 * 1885 George John Romanes Mind and motion
 * 1886 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury On the forms of seedlings and the causes to which they are due
 * 1887 John Robert Seeley Greater Britain in the Georgian and in the Victorian era
 * 1888 Frederick Augustus Abel Applications of science to the protection of human life
 * 1889 George Gabriel Stokes On some effects of the action of light on ponderable matter
 * 1890 Richard Claverhouse Jebb Erasmus
 * 1891 Alfred Comyn Lyall Natural religion in India
 * 1892 Thomas George Bonney The microscope's contributions to the earth's physical history
 * 1893 Michael Foster Weariness
 * 1894 John Willis Clark Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
 * 1895 Mandell Creighton The Early Renaissance in England
 * 1896 J. J. Thomson Röntgen rays
 * 1897 Arthur William Rücker Recent researches on terrestrial magnetism
 * 1898 Henry Irving The theatre in its relation to the state
 * 1899 Italian author page Marie Alfred Cornu La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne