1866 |
Thomas H. Huxley |
Nottingham |
Yes (not published in the Report) |
Biology as a synthesis, science education |
1867 |
William Sharpey |
Dundee |
Yes |
Anatomy, physiology |
1868 |
Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Norwich |
Yes |
Lower organisms, physiology, botany, inheritance, maternalism |
1869 |
George Busk |
Exeter |
Yes (Address by Spence Bate) |
Geology, plant distribution, marine zoology |
1870 |
George Rolleston |
Liverpool |
Yes |
Professionalisation and experimental laboratories, science education, museums, spontaneous generation, natural history of humanity |
1871 |
Allen Thomson |
Edinburgh |
Yes |
Recent history of the section, histology and embryology, science education, criticism of “extra-scientific” explanations |
1872 |
John Lubbock |
Brighton |
Yes |
Public education, importance of Darwin’s ideas in the understanding of organisms |
1873 |
George James Allman |
Bradford |
Yes |
Biology and scientific method, anatomy, development, taxonomy, distribution and evolution. |
1874 |
Peter Redfern |
Belfast |
Yes |
Cell theory, anatomy, physiology |
1875 |
Philip L. Sclater |
Bristol |
Yes |
Distribution and zoology |
1876 |
Alfred R. Wallace |
Glasgow |
Yes |
Geology, evolution, colouring, antiquity and origin of humanity |
1877 |
John Gwyn Jeffreys |
Plymouth |
Yes |
Deep-sea Mollusca |
1878 |
William Henry Flower |
Dublin |
Yes |
Classification and Linnæus, zoology, botany |
1879 |
St. George Mivart |
Sheffield |
Yes |
Natural history and Buffon, transformism, vitalism, physiology, psychology |
1880 |
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther |
Swansea |
Yes |
Museums (provincial, national, natural history), zoology, botany, mineralogy |
1881 |
Richard Owen |
York |
Yes |
History of the Natural History Museum, London |
1882 |
Arthur Gamgee |
Southampton |
Yes |
Physiology, embryology |
1883 |
E. Ray Lankester |
Southport |
Yes |
Professionalisation of biology in Europe, cellular theory and experimentation, public funding for scientific practice |
1884 |
Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Montreal |
Yes |
Marine biology, physiology, zoology |
1885 |
William C. McIntosh |
Aberdeen |
Yes |
Phosphorescence of marine animals |
1886 |
William Carruthers |
Birmingham |
Yes |
History of botanical species, geology |
1887 |
Alfred Newton |
Manchester |
Yes |
Palaeontological discoveries, evolution (Darwin and Wallace), species, natural selection, survival of the fittest, geographic distribution |
1888 |
William Turner Thiselton Dyer |
Bath |
Yes |
Botany, taxonomy, heredity and Darwin, Lamarckism, physiology |
1889 |
John Scott Burdon-Sanderson |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
Yes |
Physiology, chemical processes, the living, vitalism |
1890 |
Arthur Milnes Marshall |
Leeds |
Yes |
Embryology, recapitulation theory, natural selection |
1891 |
Francis Darwin |
Cardiff |
Yes |
Botany (“movements”), morphology, physiology |
1892 |
William Rutherford |
Edinburgh |
Yes |
Physiology, colour sense |
1893 |
Rev. Henry Baker Tristram |
Nottingham |
Yes (Read by W.H. Flower) |
Natural history, field naturalists, migrations, mimicry |
1894 |
Isaac Bayley Balfour |
Oxford |
Yes |
Brief history of the section, forestry |