| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged in seven groups, possibly by room. Headed 'Burlington House. March 12th 1864'. Marked in red crayon and in pencil verso, '1864. March'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Electro-magnetic telegraph semaphores, as used in the train signal system on the South-Eastern Railway; in operation. Mr. C. V. [Charles Vincent] Walker.
Machine for showing the movement of waves. Prof. [Charles] Wheatstone.
Spectroscope with 4 prisms of extra-dense glass, spectroscope with 3 fluid prisms showing the separation of the D lines - fluid prisms with double parallel glass slides, pocket aneroids in cases of aluminium bronze - improved Alpine and house aneroids, new liquid compass (patent) with 11-inch aluminium card the largest instrument of the kind hitherto constructed. Mr. J. [John] Browning.
Pigmy fossil elephant of Malta Elephas melitensis - reindeer bones of colossal size from the Gower Caves showing ancient marks of the hand of Man. Dr. [Hugh] Falconer.
Remains of human art from Windmill Hill Cave Gibraltar. Mr. [George] Busk.
Specimens from caves in France, illustrative of the industry of the Stone Age at the Reindeer period, inbedded in breccia with bones of reindeer, aurochs, and horse. Messrs. [Edouard] Lartet and [Henry] Christie.
Illustrations of Danish antiquities. Mr. John Lubbock.
Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo and Raphael from the Royal Collection, exhibited by permission of H. M. The Queen.
Photographs of growing plants showing results of the application of different fertilizers. Professor G. [Georges] Ville.
Photographs of brains: bushwoman and of two idiots of European descent. J. [John] Marshall.
Microscopes. Messrs. Smith and Beck.
Syren of a new form in operation, open scale barometer, portable galvanic coil for medicinal use, Wheatstone's kaleidophone, Professor Stokes's handy spectroscope for examination of liquids. Mr. [William] Ladd.
Electric bobbin with vibrating commutator for determining the declination and dip of the magnetic force. Professor J. [James] Clark Maxwell.
Professor W, Thomson's new electrometer and reflecting galvanometer, spectroscopes of new construction, Wheatstone's revolving mirror. Messrs Elliott Brothers.
Electric exploding apparatus for field use. Professor [Frederick Augustus] Abel.
Frictional governor by which uniform rotary motion can be maintained in wheelwork driven by varying weights or subject to varying resistance. Mr. Fleeming Jenkin.
Illustrations of M. Vial's process for instantaneous engraving. Messrs. Davies and Hunt.
Illustrations of M. Dulos's processes for engraving.
Photographs of labour-saving machines used n the construction of the Thames Embankment. The Metropolitan Board of Works.
Nachet's pseudomorphic and stereoscopic microscope. Dr. [William Benjamin] Carpenter.
Mr. Alex. [Alexander] Herschel's method of determining the path of a meteor.
Model of the engines of the Agincourt, 1350 horse-power, placed in a model of the ship to show the mode of construction of the vessel. Model of patent 3-cylinder economical engines of 500 horse-power, as made for H.M. ship Octivia. Messrs. Maudslay, Sons and Field.
Coloured drawings of the Thames Embankment. The Metropolitan Board of Works.
Wedgwood medallion portraits, Dr. J. D. [Joseph Dalton] Hooker.
Painting: The first sense of sorrow, by Mr. [James] Sant A.R.A.
Sculpture: The secret, by Mr. J. [John Adrien] Raemacker; A mother's love, by Mr. E. [Edwin] Landseer; marble statue: Lillybud, by Mr. E. [Edward] Davis.
Collection of onyxes, sapphires, and other precious stones, ands medallions, Mr. [James] Tennant.
Model to show mode of construction of a wrought iron pile, and iron fire-proof floor, with explanatory drawings. Mr. J. E. Dowson.
Specimens of copper and brass tubes, cold drawn, from the works of the Stephenson-Tube Company, Birmingham. Mr. J. W. Wilson.
Statuettes illustrating the process of photosculpture invented by M. Willeme de Marnyhac. M. [Antoine] Claudet.
Enlarged view of the Moon. Mr. Warren de la Rue.
Specimens of Medieval ivory-carving and bronzes from Burmah. Mr. E. W. [Edward William] Cooke, R.A.
Specimens of tsetse fly from Eastern Africa. Dr. [John] Kirk.
Specimens of mineral and grain from Newfoundland. Mr. [Frederick Newton] Gisborne.
Cohesion figures of liquids, Mr. C. [Charles] Tomlinson.
All the trees, plants, and flowers throughout the apartments, are lent by the Royal Botanic Society.
Anemometer of the Kew pattern, on a reduced scale: shows the direction and velocity of the wind. Distance-measurer for measuring the distance of inaccessible objects by a single observation. Mr. P. [Patrick] Adie.
Statuettes in plaster: Thackery and W.P. Esq.; and bust in terra cotta. Herr [Joseph Edgar] Boehm. Bronze statuettes: Boys at play. J. [Joseph] Durham.
Drawings of Dr, Haast's explorations among the glaciers of New Zealand (Artist J. Gully). Views near Lake Ngami, by Mr. Baines of the Baines and Chapman Expedition. Royal stool presented by the King of Dahomey to Commander Eardley Wilmot. Lent by the President and Council of the Royal Geographical Society.
Electro-magnetic telegraph semaphores as used in the train signal system on the South-Eastern Railway, in operation. Portable telegraph carried in all Royal Special Trains on the South-Eastern Railway. Mr. C. V. [Charles Vincent] Walker.
Model of the Sultan's yacht Taliah, 912 tons, 350 horse-power, the fastest vessel of her class. Mr. J. D'A [Joseph d'Aguilar] Samuda.
Microscopes. Powell and Lealand.
Schlagintweit's views in India and maps; and illustrations of Buddhism in Thibet.
Crayon portraits of Dr. [August Wilhelm] Hofmann, Prof. [John] Tyndall, Rev. - Keble, and the Maharanee, Mr. G. [George] Richmond.
Lower jaw of an elephant, and two bones (probably of the same skeleton) found at Deptford, in the excavations for the Southern Main Drainage. The Metropolitan Board of Works.
Wet- and dry-bulb thermometer, self-recording by means of twp pencils of light on photographic paper. Mr. P. [Patrick] Adie.
In the Lower Library.
Gisborne's patent electrical and mechanical engine and steering instruments, giving accurate and instantaneous communication between the Captain, the Engineer, and the Helmsman. Exhibited by Messrs. Silver and Company.
Model, in corrugated iron, of soldier's tent for use in hot climates. Mr. J. E. Dowson. |