| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with occasional descriptive text. Arranged by rooms. Rooms 1-4.
Room 1: the continuous electrophorus, exhibited by Mr. J. Wimshurst.
Room 2: map of the earthquake in Essex (22 April 1884) with photographs of damaged buildings, exhibited by George John Symons.
Room 3: simplex repeater board, Wheatstone's transmitter, Wheatstone's perforator (new form), portable electric lamps worked by Skrivanow batteries, Kew Committee magnetometer, selection of electrical and other instruments, exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers
Room 4 (Principal Library): compound magnet with bifilar suspension showing the change in total moment produced by dividing a magnet into short lengths, exhibited by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosenquet; single prism table spectroscope of great steadiness, approved by the Science and Art Department, solar star and laboratory spectroscope, 61/2 inch achromatic object glass in a mount of new construction, exhibited by Adam Hilger; a new photometer, Dwoark's sound radiometer, exhibited by William Henry Preece; Hughes' magnetic balance and George Minchin's absolute sine electrometer, exhibited by Mr. W. Groves; apparatus for the generation and distribution of ozonised air to be placed in the Hotel-Kursaal de la Maloja, Upper Engladine, Switzerland, constructed by Alfred Apps, exhibited by Dr. A. Tucker; drawing from photographs of the eclipse of 6 May 1882, exhibited by Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney; drawings by William Wesley from photographs of the corona taken in the absence of an eclipse, exhibited by William Huggins; sketch of clouds and lightning by Claude Lorrain, exhibited by Mr. G. W. Reid; selection from a series of drawings of the solar surface made at Stonyhurst Observatory from 1880 to 1884, exhibited by the Rev. Stephen Joseph Perry; photographs of landscapes and various studies including groups of red deer, exhibited by Vernon Heath. |