| Description | Seven figures of exhibits at the Royal Society’s conversazione, or soirée, at Burlington House, London, on the evening of 13 May 1904.
The figures are numbered and captioned: 1. Cutter of the Brandt hydraulic drill. 2. A Hydnophytum longifolium from the Fiji Islands. 3. Photograph illustrative of induced radio-activity of bacteria. 4. An improved muffle and melting furnace for use in laboratories. 5. A plant with tubers from the High Andes. 6. A radial area-scale. 7. Edison’s secondary battery for automobiles.
Cutting from The Graphic, 21 May 1904. Captioned below: ‘THE ROYAL SOCIETY’S CONVERSAZIONE: SOME OF THE EXHIBITS’. Several of the individual illustrations are inscribed ‘T.P. Collings’ or initialled ‘T.P.C.’
T. P. Collings (active 1880s-1890s) British engraver. |