| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged by room. Headed 'Burlington House. March 5th 1870'. Inscribed in red pencil verso; '1870 March'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Model of a lighthouse on the Wolf Rock between Land's End and the Scilly Isles. Exhibited by Mr. J. N. [James Nicholas] Douglass, Engineer to the Trinity House.
Linnaean Library.
Bright-cross micrometer on micro-spectroscope in action, Bright-cross micrometer on star spectroscope in action. The micro-spectroscopes exhibiting various absorption spectra, some with spectra of chlorophyll from the Japan honeysuckle as prepared by the Rev. J. B. [Joseph Bancroft] Reade. Spectrum of pure gold from Queensland shown in a large spectroscope. New spark condenser for use in deflagrating metals under observation with the spectroscope. Improved large electric lamp, in action. Stereograms on glass of a globe of Mars. Water-colour drawing of Jupiter. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Browning.
Prism transit instrument constructed by Messrs. Cooke and Sons, York, under the superintendence of Lt. Col. A. Strange, for the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Exhibited by Lt. Col. A. [Alexander] Strange, by permission of the Secretary of State for India.
Engraving machine for engraving the numbers on graduated circles, and on scientific apparatus generally. Constructed and exhibited by Mr. Thomas Cushing, Assistant to the Inspector of Scientific Instruments, India Department.
Drill pantagraph, invented by Mr. Francis Galton, for reducing tracings made by meteorological self-recording instruments, vertically and horizontally in different proportions. Exhibited by the Meteorological Committee of the Board of Trade.
Products from opium, and some of their products of decomposition. Exhibited by Messrs. Macfarlan and Company, of Edinburgh.
Deep-sea corals from the dredging cruise of the Porcupine, described by Prof. Duncan: exhibited by Dr. [William Benjamin] Carpenter, Prof. [Charles] Wyville Thomson and Mr. [John] Gwyn Jeffreys: and deep-sea coral s from the Gulf-stream, off Florida, and from the Mediterranean. Exhibited by Prof. [Peter Martin] Duncan.
Disk mountings of eyes and wings of Lepidoptera. Exhibited by Mr. James Smith F.L.S.
Oxyhydrogen zirconia light - new forms of lantern for electric light - and simple form of micro-spectroscopes. Exhibited by Mr. [William] Ladd.
Leclanche battery: the cells formed of peroxide of manganese and zinc. Exhibited by the India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telegraph Works Company.
Articles of native manufacture from Chitral and Ghilghit [Gilgit] - from Thibet [Tibet] - and from Yarkland, collected by Dr. [Gottlieb Wilhelm] Leitner. Exhibited by Mr. J. H. Lamprey.
Antiquities from Tumuli at Kertch [Kerch]. Exhibited by Mr. C. W. [Charles William] Siemens.
Engraved portraits of historical personages. Exhibited by Mr. J. [James] Anderson Rose.
Sculpture: statue of Hero. Sketches: for statue of Newton and of Harvey. Exhibited by J. [Joseph] Durham.
Photographs: scenes in London - clouds. Exhibited by Mr. Vernon Heath.
Linnaean Meeting Room.
Faure's new nitric-acid battery. Gordon's electric wind dial and self-recording anemometer. The Gassiot cascade exhausted by the mercurial air-pump. Some of the latest forms of vacuum-tubes, made by A. Apps. A new mercurial contact-breaker. An induction coil with the latest improvements giving a spark as long as the bobbin of the coil. A new electrometer for measuring electrical discharges of high tension. Invented, made and exhibited by Mr. Apps.
Chronoscope for recording at one observation, the velocity with which a projectile passes different parts of the bore of a gun. Exhibited by Capt. Andrew Noble.
Sporting shot gun: the barrels of Whitworth metal, 75 times as strong as and more ductile than the best Damascus steel. Exhibited by Sir Joseph Whitworth.
Mean-time astronomical clock, or regulator, in which the hours and minutes are indicated by a single hand. Exhibited by Major-General [John Theophilus] Boileau.
Faure's new patent carbon battery, in action. Modification of Sir W. [William] Thomson's quadrant electrometer. Exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
Model of Vavasseur's 7-in. steel gun, with self-acting compressor to control the recoil. Exhibited by Mr. J. [Josiah] Vavasseur.
Microscopes, with 1/8 and 1/12 object-glass, constructed on a new immersion principle. Exhibited by Mr. T. [Thomas] Ross.
Specimens of electro-deposited iron and of the alloy of iron and hydrogenium, prepared by the Chemist of the Royal Mint. Exhibited by Mr. W. C. [William Chandler] Roberts.
Chart and six coloured drawings of Easter Island. Admiralty map of Port Said. lent by the Royal Geographical Society.
Sculpture: cabinet busts in ivory: of the Queen, of the late Prince Consort, of the Prince of Wales, of the Princess of Wales, of the late Duchess of Sutherland, of Lord Palmerston, Lord Brougham, and of Faraday. Exhibited by Mr. M. [Matthew] Noble.
Entrance Saloon.
Model of swift channel passenger steam-vessel, and (in Corridor on Ground Floor) working model of the same, showing the wheels and water-ways. Invented and exhibited by Mr. S. J. Mackie, Assoc.C.E.
Model of steam life ship. Exhibited by Capt. Hans Busk.
Specimens of cast steel produced (by fusion of large masses) by the Landore-Siemens Steel Company; and specimens of slags and metal illustrative of the Siemens ore-process. Exhibited by the Company.
Supposed ancient stone mining-implement found deep below a river-bed, Co. Wicklow. Exhibited by Mr. J. H. Lamprey.
Specimens of Rheea, the so-called China-Grass or Nettle. Lent from the India Museum, India Office.
Sculpture: sketch for the statue of Cromwell to be erected at Manchester. Drawing for the canopied marble statue of H.M. The Queen to be presented by the King of Baroda to the Victoria Gardens, Bombay. Exhibited by Mr. M. [Matthew] Noble.
Fossil animal remains from Old Beds of the River Lea. Diamonds and other minerals from the neighbourhood of the Orange River, South Africa. Exhibited by Professor [James] Tennant.
Sculpture: sketches in plaster of Highland games: throwing the hammer - tossing the caber - putting the stone - the kilted runner. Exhibited by permission of H. M. The Queen. Bronze: a Cleveland cart-horse. Exhibited by J. E. [Joseph Edgar] Boehm.
Sketch of the Sassoon Memorial of the late Prince Consort, to be erected in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay. Exhibited by Mr. M. [Matthew] Noble.
High-power compensating microscope: corrects chromatic and spherical aberration, shows the Podura beading with ½ inch objective with a power of 700 diam., and with the 1/8 gives 2400. Exhibited by Dr. Royston Pigott.
Microscopes and 1/16 object-glass made on the immersion principle. Exhibited by Messrs. Powel and Lealand.
New self-illuminating ophthalmoscope, suggested by Dr. Lionel S. Beale. Exhibited in use upon the yes of Man and living animals, by Mr. Hawksley.
Improved sphygmograph, and a stethoscope. Exhibited by Dr. J. B. [John Scott Burdon-] Sanderson.
Diagram view of Tian-Shan and Snowy Range, from Kashgar. Source of the Yarkland River, from sketches by Mr. [George Whitaker] Hayward, the Traveller of the Royal Geographical Society. Lent by the Royal Geographical Society.
Council Room.
Model of Gebel Mousa (the Mount Sinai of scripture) and of Gebel Serbal. Collection of photographs of the country included in the Ordnance Survey of Sinai. Exhibited by Col. Sir H. [Henry] James R.E., Director General of the Ordnance Survey.
Apparatus for mental education, as used at the 'Worcester Proprietary College for Blind Sons of Gentlemen'. Exhibited by the Rev. R. H. Blair, M.A., F.R.A.S., Principal of the College.
The Resolute abandoned in the ice. Views in the Balearic Isles. Lent by the Royal Geographical Society.
Illustrated works: The People of India - tree and serpent worship; and photographic and coloured illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Lent from the India Museum, India Office.
Enlarged photographs, coloured in oils, of [Michael] Faraday, Peabody, and A. [Antoine] Claudet. Exhibited by Mr. H. Claudet.
Specimens of terra cotta, from the manufactory of Ernst March Sohne, Charlottenburg, near Berlin. Exhibited by F. W. Paschen and Company.
London indexed on the hexagonal mile system: map of London. Lamp-pillar utilized (blue). Pillar-post and lantern (red). Map of Paris, hexagonized. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Leighton. |