| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged by room. Headed 'Burlington House. March 11th 1865'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Linnaean Library.
Original drawings by Bellini, Perugino, Bramantino, Albert Durer, Claude Lorraine, Dumoustier and Lely, from the Royal Collection, exhibited by permission of H.M. The Queen.
Gisborne's patent electric apparatus for signalling in mines, collieries &c., and specimens of sheet India-rubber prepared direct from the milk. Exhibited by the India -rubber, Gutta-percha and Telegraph Works Company (late Silver & Company).
Stone implements from the recent finds in Poitou. Messrs. [John] Evans and Christy; and flint, bone and horn implements from the Dordogne Caves, being further illustrations of the Stone-Period. Messrs. [Henry] Christy and [Edouard] Lartet.
Ancient flint and bronze implements from Denmark. Mr Brady.
Specimens of insects from Japan. Mr. S. W. [Stephen Winkworth] Silver.
Specimens of natural history and manufacture from Western Africa. Dr. [Friedrich] Welwitsch.
The Herschel-Browning direct-vision spectroscope for geologists, tourists and astronomers. A very large prism of extra-dense glass, dimensions 4 inches by 5, believed to be the largest yet made. A large model spectroscope with eight prisms of extra dense glass. Direct-vision prisms as proposed by A. [Alexander] Herschel Esq., new form of level made for Alpine travellers. Mr. J. [John] Browning.
Photographs of Grinling Gibbons' s carvings in St Paul's. Exhibited by Mr.[Francis Cranmer] Penrose.
Sculpture. Statue in plaster of St. John; bust in plaster of the Archbishop of Canterbury; bust of a Lady. By Mr. E. [Edward] Davis.
Linnaean Meeting Room.
Electro-chronograph to be used for the determination of longitude in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Exhibited by Lieut. Col. A. [Alexander] Strange, by permission of the Secretary of State for India.
Thomson's electrometer arranged for self-registration. Doering's levelling instrument. Specimen of the new Atlantic Cable. Ebonite exploder with explosions. Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
'Wild Roses': a subject after [Myles] Birket Foster showing the successive stages in the process of chromolithographic printing of landscapes, with the original drawing. Messrs. Hanharts.
Stereoscopic maps taken from models of mountainous countries, photographed by R. Cameron Galton Esq., to illustrate a paper to be read before the Royal Geographical Society on March 13, by Francis Galton, the exhibitor.
Entrance saloon.
Selection of siliceous minerals and Eozoon. Prof. [James] Tennant.
Specimen of Eozoon Canadense. The Geological Society.
Relics from Chamouni. Mr. Wills.
The new unit of resistance constructed for the Standard Committee of the British Association, being a close approximation to 7 metre 10 seconds in absolute electro-magnetic measure. Mr. Fleeming Jenkin.
Pair of Astatic needles. Capt. Selwyn.
Two carved pendents, belonging to Lord Brownlow, restored by W. G. Rogers. Exhibited by permission of H. [Henry] Cole, Esq.
Carved miniature frames. Toilette glasses with birds and flowers. Chess table and statuette. Rich balustrade in Gibbons style, and other articles. Mr. G. A. [George Alfred] Rogers.
Carvings. Mr. W. H. [William Harry] Rogers.
Electrotypes of antique gems. Mr. J. Williams.
Specimens of the new coinage for Newfoundland. The Master of the Mint [Thomas Graham].
Coloured drawings of the Thames Embankment. The Metropolitan Board of Works.
Panorama of the City of Morocco and other curiosities from Morocco. Dr [Thomas] Hodgkin.
All the trees, plants and flowers throughout the apartments are lent by the Royal Botanic Society.
Ancient statuette of Venus, from Crete. Capt. [Thomas Abel Brimage] Spratt.
Sculpture - Two Boys at Play; statuette of the Prince Consort, produced by Elkington's process. Mr. J. [Joseph] Durham.
Paintings illustrative of explorations in South-west Africa, by Mr. Baines, and model of the Victoria Falls, Zambesi River. Lent by the Royal Geographical Society.
Japanese ivory carvings and tortoiseshell tray. Messrs. Smith and Beck.
Microscopes with 1/50th object glass. Powell and Lealand.
Council Room.
Photographs of Turner's pictures. Messrs Marion and Company.
Specimens of Chinese enamels on copper, and bronzes, illustrating the peculiar treatment of flowers and animals by Chinese artists. Japanese bronzes: fine examples of nature-casting. Mr. Alfred Tylor.
Wedgwood medallions. Dr. [Francis] Sibson.
Model of a 300-ton yacht building for the Pasha of Egypt. Mr. J. D. A. [Joseph d'Aguilar] Samuda.
Experiments on invisible radiation. Working model of Froment's electro-magnetic engine. Professor [John] Tyndall.
Frontal and pair of horns of Bos antiquus, and other relics, discovered twenty feet below the surface at Camberwell, in the course of the Main Drainage Works. The Metropolitan Board of Works.
Lower Library.
Harrison's newly-invented pneumatic loom, in operation, the simplest power loom yet constructed. The Patent Pneumatic Loom Company.
Sampson's automatic fog-signal, or bell-buoy; Ingall's hydraulic tank, an improved method for storing petroleum, naphtha and other volatile oils, without risk of loss by evaporation; Stevens's improved double-roller cotton gin, of Churka. Exhibited by Mr. T. Bourne.
Model of the Thames Embankment. The Metropolitan Board of Works. |