| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged by room. Headed 'Burlington House. April 30th 1864'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Linnaean Library.
Semaphore of Patent Electric Signal Apparatus Company; Morse's apparatus, Ragon's bell. Pneumatic relay. Electroscope, Various telegraph insulators, mounted. Silver's improved voltaic battery, Specimen of unmanufactured Balata, a newly imported gum; with gutta percha and India-rubber for comparison. Messrs. Silver and Company.
Microscopes. Smith and Beck.
Ebonite photographic appliances. Mr. H. Lowcock.
A series of implements and ornaments in stone, bone and reindeer-horn, illustrative of the industry of the early cave-dwellers of Southern France. Messrs. [Edouard] Lartet and [Henry] Christy.
Collection of fossils from the Lias near Lyme Regis, and specimens of emeralds and opals. Mr. J. R. [James Reynolds] Gregory.
Specimens of insects in amber and gum animi. Mr. P. J. Butler.
Original drawings by Holbein. Portraits of Royal and illustrious persons of the court of Henry VIII from the Royal Collection, exhibited by permission of H.M. the Queen.
Autographs and letters of eminent persons, illustrated by portraits. Mr. G. W. Manners.
Tuning-forks showing the composition of sound. Mr. [William] Ladd.
Specimens of submarine telegraph cables, magnetic dial instruments and differential pressure gauge. Mr. C. W. [Charles William] Siemens.
Working model of Joy's double-acting and self-acting steam-hammer. Messrs. Tregelles and Taylor.
Linnaean Meeting Room.
The Kew spectroscope, with eleven bisulphide of carbon prisms and twenty-two prisms of crown glass. Invented and made by John Browning. The group of lines known as Fraunhofer's D in the solar spectrum as shown by the above-described instrument drawn on a larger scale. J. P. [John Peter] Gassiot.
New aneroid barometer, without springs or chain, in which the indication is multiplied by the reflexion of a ray of light. Invented by J. Browning. Pocket spectroscope for showing Prof. [George Gabriel] Stokes's absorption-bands. Mr. J. [John] Browning.
Geissler' vacuum tubes with experiments. Mr. [William] Ladd.
Richards' steam indicator. Prof. W. [William] Thomson's new electrometer. Thermo-pile and wave machine. Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
Gas-burner for producing high temperatures; used for various heating purposes and to melt metals. Mr. G. [George] Gore.
Improved mercurial open scale barometer and self-registering maximum thermometer. Invented and exhibited by Mr. J. [James Joseph] Hicks.
Series of microscopic specimens showing the successive stages of the development of the Pentacrinoid larva of the Comatula (Feather-star); full-sized specimens of the adult and otter starfish preserved in glycerine. Dr. [William Benjamin] Carpenter.
Entrance Saloon.
Bust of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales by Morton Edwards. Mr Morton Edwards.
Paintings: The Gorner Glacier from Zermatt; Monte Rosa from Val d'Anzasca; Burnham Beeches; Windsor Forest. Mr. A. [Andrew] MacCallum.
Bust of the late Sir B. C. [Benjamin Collins] Brodie P.R.S., by W. [William] Behnes. Mr. Morton Edwards.
Shakespeare Shield. Mr. J. [John] Leighton ['Luke Limner'].
Model of a floating dock constructed for the Spanish Government at Cartagena. Models of double-screw gunboats. Messrs. Rennie.
A frame, with portrait of Shakespeare, carved from portions of Herne's Oak and an apple-tree from Anne Hathaway's garden; Italian standard and pendents. Carved and exhibited by Messrs. Rogers.
Manufactured specimens of Parkesite, a new flexible waterproof substance. Mr [Alexander] Parkes.
Bronzes. E. W. [Edward William] Cooke R.A.
Adie's transit theodolite with flush vernier and edge to edge reading applied to the sloping limb. Adie's patent levelling theodolite. Patent level and improved surveying compass. Mr. P. Adie.
Specimens of gun cotton showing the modes of preparation for different uses. Mr. T. [Thomas] Prentice.
Specimens of cold drawn steel tubes and gun barrels. Messrs Harding and Hawkesworth.
Steel blocks showing the structure of the metal with printed impressions of the same. H. C. [Henry Clifton] Sorby.
All the trees, plants and flowers throughout the apartments are lent by the Royal Botanic Society.
Experiment to determine whether the Earth's motion affects the refraction of light. Model of a body moving similarly to a particle of a fluid medium which rotates the plane of polarized light. Ophthalmoscope. Prof. J. [James] Clerk Maxwell.
Bust of C. [Charles Thomas] Newton Esq., of the British Museum. Statuette of General Fox. Portrait statuettes of Mr. and Mrs Daniel Holme. Portrait in bronze of the racehorse (Johnny Armstrong). Mr. J. E. [Joseph Edgar] Boehm.
Microscopes. Powell and Lealand.
Coloured drawing of an ice-hummock formed at Niagara in the winter of 1855-56. Mr. H. [Henry] Christy.
Original coloured drawings of scenes and incidents in Capt. Cook's Third Voyage (1777) by J. [John] Webber artist to the Expedition. Exhibited by Capt. [George Henry] Richards, hydrographer, with permission of the Lords of the Admiralty.
Council Room.
Gisborne's patent apparatus for striking large bells whereby full tones are produced without danger of cracking the metal. Messrs. Silver & Company and F. N. [Frederick Newton] Gisborne.
Sculptured stones, bronze keys, cranium and horn-cores of Bos longifrons, found November 1863 at Wycombe, Gloucestershire, an ancient Roman Station. Mr. W. Lawrence.
Photographs of Thorwaldsen's bas-reliefs from the originals at Copenhagen. Whole-length portrait of the Queen, painted in oils on a photograph by the late Mr. [Charles] Clifford of Madrid. Messrs. Marion, Son & Company.
Collection of gold and silver Japanese coins and silver coins of China and Cochin China. Mr. S. W. [Stephen Winkworth] Silver.
Model in plaster of the late W. M. [William Makepeace] Thackeray and bronze statuettes, boys at play. J. [Joseph] Durham.
New statuettes illustrative of the process of photosculpture. A. [Antoine] Claudet.
Apparatus for showing the rotation of an induction spark in vacuo when connected with an electromagnet. Mr. Edward Atkinson.
Lower Library and Meeting Room.
Gisborne's patent mechanical signal apparatus for naval use, as fitted on board H.M. Frigate 'Achilles'. Messrs. Silver & Company and F. N. [Frederick Newton] Gisborne.
Electric safety distance signal; used on the London Chatham and Dover Railway. Mr. J. Imray.
Model of jointed cast-iron bridge, lighter than the usual form of wrought-iron girder; with diagram showing the strains. Mr. Fleeming Jenkin. |