| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged by room. Headed 'Burlington House. April 13th 1867'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Linnaean Library.
Further series of original drawings by Holbein, from the Royal Collection, exhibited by permission of H.M. The Queen.
Drawings of the wild flowers of India. Exhibited by Mrs. (General) Read Brown.
Collection of teeth of the genus Ceratodus from the Bristol bone bed. Collected and exhibited by Mr. E. T. [Edmund Thomas] Higgins to prove the impossibility of dividing the genus into species.
Specimens of Euplectella speciose (Rigederos of the Philippines) of Venus's Flower-Basket. Mr. E. J. Reed.
The Aelloscope, or storm-indicator. Invented and exhibited by Mr. H. A. [Henry Augustus] Clum.
Application of Plaster of Paris to the study of natural history: casts of salmon and sea-fish. Modelled and exhibited by Mr. F. [Frank] Buckland.
New self-registering railway signal light. Curious Oolitic specimen fished up by a submarine cable in the English Channel. Exhibited by W. W. [William Henry?] Preece.
Various forms of Dr. [Benjamin Ward] Richardson's apparatus for producing local anaesthesia by the application of ether spray. Exhibited by Messrs. Krohne and Sesemann.
Linnaean Meeting Room.
3-feet theodolite, the principal parts of aluminium bronze: by Messrs. Troughton and Simms. To be used in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Designed and exhibited by Lieut. Col. [Alexander] Strange, wit the sanction of the Secretary of State for India.
Double image micrometer - spectroscope designed by W. [William] Huggins.
New form of magneto-electric machine for the conversion of dynamic into electric force. Invented and exhibited by Mr. [William] Ladd.
New form of ozone generator for decolorizing sugar and other substances, by Edward Beanes F.C.S. New form of air-pump for obtaining the most perfect exhaustion by mechanical means, Mr. J. Barrett. Exhibited by Mr. [William] Ladd.
Portable and universal equatorial with telescope of 4-in. aperture. 12-inch transit circle, with telescope of 2-in. aperture, arranged for use also in the prime vertical. Exhibited by Messrs. Cooke and Sons.
Spectrum microscopes: new improvements and applications. Direct-vision hand-spectrum-telescope. Exhibited by Mr. H. C. [Henry Clifton] Sorby.
Silvered glass speculum, 13 inches in diameter. Microspectroscopes, with illustrations. 15 drawings of Mars taken during the recent opposition by J. B. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Browning.
New volta-electric imperishable chain batteries, restorable in magnesium and zinc. Exhibited by Mr. [Isaac Lewis] Pulvermacher.
Engraved historical portraits. Exhibited by Mr. James Rose.
Entrance Saloon.
Models of ships: the new iron frigate Inconstant, recently commenced at Pembroke Dock - the iron-clad corvette Pallas, Channel Squadron - of the new wooden sloop Blanche, now building at Chatham - of an iron-clad Monitor for colonial coastal defence, showing Mr. Reed's plan of raised breastwork for the turrets. Exhibited by Mr. E. J. [Edward James] Reed of the Admiralty.
Landscapes in watercolour: track of an avalanche - the Matterhorn from the Italian side - Dome du Goute and Glacier de Bionassay - Valley of Chamonix from the Col de Voza. Exhibited by Mr. G. [George] Barnard.
Specimens of precious stones; and of Derbyshire inlaying. Exhibited by Prof. [James] Tennant.
Chinese drawings; rare autograph; and medals. Exhibited by H. Stevens.
Wedgwood medallions and vases. Exhibited by Dr. [Francis] Sibson.
All trees, plants and flowers, throughout the apartments, are lent by the Royal Botanic Society.
Absorption spectra as shown by liquids, contained in hollow wedges. Exhibited by Dr. [John Hall] Gladstone.
Drawing, in isometric projection, of the interior of the room in which the comparisons of standards were made, at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, showing especially the apparatus for the determination of the rate of expansion of 10-ft. bars. Exhibited by Capt. [Alexander Ross] Clarke, R.E.
Sculpture: antique bust (Greek and Roman); bust of a young girl in terra cotta by [Joseph Edward] Boehm; and bronzes. Exhibited by Mr. C. Bowyer.
Photographs of paintings by Belgian artists. Exhibited by Messrs. Marion and Company.
Photographic copies of etchings by J. [James] Nasmyth; A Bit of Old England - The Alchemist - Fairies. Exhibited by Mr. G. C. Lowe of Manchester.
Collection of fossil leaves from the Miocene deposits of North Greenland. The property of the Royal Dublin Society. Exhibited by Mr. R. H. [Robert Henry] Scott.
Patent binocular microscopes. Exhibited by Messrs. Powell and Lealand.
Vacuum tube (curious as a specimen of glass-blowing) to illustrate the electric discharge in vacuo. Exhibited by Mr. Edw. Atkinson.
Council Room.
Watercolour drawings of Alpine subjects, by Elijah Walton. Scottish landscapes by W. [William] Simpson. Exhibited by Mr. W. M. Thompson, 43 Piccadilly.
Twelve photographs - "The Lady of the Lake" series, by Vernon Heath, 43 Piccadilly.
Photographic pictures, books, and stereoscopic views. Exhibited by Messrs. Marion and Company.
Carved vases in lapis lazuli, a Chinese altar set. Exhibited by Major Gowan, R.A.
Portrait statue of a child - "Good Night", by J. [Joseph] Durham. Exhibited by the sculptor.
Model of the iron-clad frigate Crown Prince, 3404 tons burthen, 800 horse-power, built for the Royal Prussian Navy by Samuda Brothers. Exhibited by J. D'A. [Joseph D'Aguilar] Samuda M.P.
Wood carvings. Exhibited by Mr. G. A. [George Alfred] Rogers.
Lower Library.
Rigged model of the Prussian iron-clad frigate Wilhelm I, the most powerful ship yet laid down in any country. Exhibited by Mr. E. J. [Edward James] Reed of the Admiralty.
Photograph: panoramic view of Sydney, New South Wales. Exhibited by Captain J. E. [John Edward] Davis R.N. |