From Michael Faraday to David Attenborough plus adorable lemur – many eminent figures have delivered Christmas science lectures at the UK’s Royal Institution. The organisation has put on 180 series of ...

IN 1839 the Rev. W. Cook was appointed to the City of London School to deliver ten to twelve lectures a year on chemistry and natural philosophy, and this was considered sufficient until 1845, when ...

THE object of this series of lectures is stated to have been to “place before the general public the present position of some of the main branches of science and to point out the direction in which ...