| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged in seven groups, possibly by room. Headed 'Burlington House. May 2nd, 1863'. Marked in red crayon verso, '1863. May'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Magnetic type-printing telegraph, in operation. Professor C. [Charles] Wheatstone.
Collection of meteorites, chiefly from Europe and America.
Fossil fish of the Old Red Sandstone, Pterichthys, Cheirolepsis, Holoptychius, and others, from the North of Scotland and Orkney. Mr. Gregory.
Fossil fern: Adiantites Hibernica; and series of British and foreign minerals. Mr. [James Reynolds?] Gregory.
Specimens of mica-schist and slate, showing ripple-drift. Mr. [Henry Clifton] Sorby.
Microscopic specimens showing the correlation of pressure and chemical action in slate, and other rocks. Mr. [Henry Clifton] Sorby.
Spectroscope, for several prisms, combined with goniometer. Elliott Brothers.
Specimens of Welwitschia. Dr. [Joseph Dalton] Hooker.
Microscopes. Smith & Beck.
Illustrations of the parasitism of the mistletoe. Dr. J. [John] Harley.
Sculpture. [Thomas] Woolner.
Aluminium and its alloy, aluminium bronze, with manufactured applications. Mappin Brothers, 222 Regent Street.
Bathometer: indicates depth of sea without sinking a line. Mr. [Charles William] Siemens.
Barometer without reservoir, on Whiting's principle. Elliott Brothers.
Amsler's planimeter for measuring areas of any form. Elliott Brothers.
Photographs of iron targets from Shoeburyness. Professor [Frederick Augustus] Abel.
Large spectroscope constructed for Mr. [John Peter] Gassiot, Geissler's tubes, and experiments. Spencer Browning & Company.
Models. Of Lord Morley's unsinkable pleasure boat - of a vessel of the 'Alabama' build - of a galley life boat which rights and frees itself of water in 14 seconds - oif a propeller working within a shield. Mr. G. [George] Turner, Royal Dockyard, Woolwich.
Models of double-screw gunboats constructed for the Spanish Government. Messrs Rennie.
Specimens of ceramic art. Mr. [William Taylor] Copeland.
Paintings. E. W. [Edward William] Cooke A.R.A.
Mocha stones, gems and inlaid tazzi. Mr. [James] Tennant.
Bust and mask in terra cotta. J. G. Boehm.
Ancient Roman mining tools. Mr. [Alfred?] Smee.
Plaster statuette: The Captive. Mons. C. [Charles] Wiener.
Pendulum showing the composition of vibrations. Professor J. [James] Clark Maxwell.
Model of a ring of satellites revolving round a centre. Professor J. [James] Clark Maxwell.
Aneroids to indicate elevation. Spencer, Browning & Company.
Views in Eastern Africa, by Mr. [Thomas] Baines, of the Livingstone Expedition. Royal Geographical Society.
Sculpture. [Thomas] Woolner.
Bronze and antiques. Mr. C. [Charles] Bowyer.
Florentine table, pietra dura and enamels. Mr Jaffrey.
Sir Isaac Newton's balance. The Assay Office, Sheffield.
Medals, including the new Rumford Medal for the Royal Society. Mons. C. [Charles] Wiener.
Medals struck in France during the Revolutionary Year, 1848. Mr. G. Worms.
Views in India. Mrs Captain Toynbee.
Drawings: life and landscapes in eastern Europe, and military scenes. Herr Goebbel.
Ruhmkoff's induction coil, with Foucault's double-acting mercury break, and the effect of a series of Leyden Jars in increasing the thickness of the spark. Mr Edward Atkinson.
Apparatus for lighting mines by means of the induction spark. Mr Edward Atkinson.
New light, visible at 50 miles distance, and gas-making apparatus, as fitted in Her Majesty's Ship 'Resistance'. Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney.
Model of a 5-gun armour-plated frigate, with fixed cupola. Mr. G. [George] Turner, Royal Dockyard, Woolwich.
A shot for Blakeley 12 ¾-inch gun: 5 cwt. 3 qrs. 4 lbs. |