| Year |
Name |
Lecture |
Notes |
| 1948 |
Davies, John David GriffithJohn David Griffith Davies |
John Wilkins and the Royal Society. |
— |
| 1949 |
Andrade, Edward Neville da CostaEdward Neville da Costa Andrade |
Robert Hoke. |
— |
| 1950 |
Cole, Francis JosephFrancis Joseph Cole |
The history of micro-dissection. |
— |
| 1952 |
Hartley, Harold BrewerHarold Brewer Hartley |
Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, P.R.S. |
— |
| 1955 |
Schonland, BasilBasil Schonland |
Benjamin Franklin, natural philosopher. |
— |
| 1958 |
Needham, JosephJoseph Needham |
The missing link in horological history: a Chinese contribution. |
— |
| 1961 |
Beer, Gavin Rylands deGavin Rylands de Beer |
The origins of Darwins ideas on evolution and natural selection. |
— |
| 1964 |
Santillana, Giorgio deGiorgio de Santillana |
Galileo today. |
— |
| 1967 |
Keynes, Geoffrey LangdonGeoffrey Langdon Keynes |
Bacon, Harvey, and the originators of the Royal Society. |
— |
| 1970 |
Jones, Reginald VictorReginald Victor Jones |
The plain story of James Watt. |
— |
| 1973 |
Hall, Alfred RupertAlfred Rupert Hall |
Newton and his editors. |
— |
| 1976 |
Gowing, MargaretMargaret Gowing |
Science, technology and education: England in 1870. |
— |
| 1979 |
Whitteridge, GwenethGweneth Whitteridge |
On the local movement of animals. |
— |
| 1982 |
Smith, SydneySydney Smith |
One hundred years after Charles Darwin. |
— |
| 1985 |
Stearn, William ThomasWilliam Thomas Stearn |
John Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus. |
— |
| 1988 |
Landes, David S.David S. Landes |
Brain and hand in the development of technology of time-measurement. |
— |
| 1991 |
Mason, Stephen FinneyStephen Finney Mason |
Bishop John Wilkins FRS. |
— |
| 1994 |
Chapman, AllanAllan Chapman |
Edmond Halley as a historian of science. |
— |
| 1997 |
King-Hele, Desmond GeorgeDesmond George King-Hele |
Erasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution. |
— |
| 2000 |
Porter, RoyRoy Porter |
Reflections on scientific and medical futurology since the time of John Wilkins. |
— |
| 2003 |
Jardine, LisaLisa Jardine |
Dr Wilkins's boy wonders. |
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