The Wilkins Lecture was a lecture organised by the Royal Society of London on the subject of the history of science and named after John Wilkins, the first Secretary of the Society. The last Wilkins lecture was delivered in 2003, after which it was merged with the Bernal Lecture and the Medawar Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.[1]
| Year | Name | Lecture | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | John Wilkins and the Royal Society. | — | |
| 1949 | Robert Hooke. | — | |
| 1950 | The history of micro-dissection. | — | |
| 1952 | Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, P.R.S. | — | |
| 1955 | Benjamin Franklin, natural philosopher. | — | |
| 1958 | The missing link in horological history: a Chinese contribution. | — | |
| 1961 | The origins of Darwins ideas on evolution and natural selection. | — | |
| 1964 | Galileo today. | — | |
| 1967 | Bacon, Harvey, and the originators of the Royal Society. | — | |
| 1970 | The plain story of James Watt. | — | |
| 1973 | Newton and his editors. | — | |
| 1976 | Science, technology and education: England in 1870. | — | |
| 1979 | On the local movement of animals. | — | |
| 1982 | One hundred years after Charles Darwin. | — | |
| 1985 | John Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus. | — | |
| 1988 | Brain and hand in the development of technology of time-measurement. | — | |
| 1991 | Bishop John Wilkins FRS. | — | |
| 1994 | Edmond Halley as a historian of science. | — | |
| 1997 | Erasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution. | — | |
| 2000 | Reflections on scientific and medical futurology since the time of John Wilkins. | — | |
| 2003 | Dr Wilkins's boy wonders. | — | |