| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibtors at the Royal Society's annual display at Burlington House, London. Arranged by rooms. Rooms 1-6 and 'Passage'. With a supplementary sheet describing a 'Trace computer' invented by Francis Galton and exhibited by the Meteorological Office.
Room 1: Carbon process photographs by Vernon Heath; Yellowstone River USA, landscape, geysers and mud-springs photographs, exhibited by Mr. A. Tylor; memorials of Joseph Priestley collected by James Yates, exhibited by the Royal Society; Copley Medal and Imperial Academy of Sciences St Peterburg diploma awarded to Joseph Priestley, exhibited by George Busk; autotypes of drawings and paintings, exhibited by the Autotype Company, 36 Rathbone Place.
Room 2: Electro-magnatic coin rejector, exhibited by James Murdoch Napier; rotary table for rapid reckoning of wages, calculating instrument for converting imperial to metric, exhibited by J. Bellows, Gloucester; differential air pressure gauge, exhibited by Rev A. Rigg; hydrostatic dynamometer, exhibited by F. E. Duckham, Millwall; improved hand signal lamp, exhibited by S. Elsner, 73 Hatton Garden; medal portrait of Queen Victoria by William Wyon and Edward John Poynter, exhibited by Charles W. Freemantle, Royal Mint; drawing of a curve, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts [later Roberts-Austen], Royal Mint; watercolours of Cornwall and the Alps, exhibited by the artist, George Barnard.
Room 3: diamonds from South Africa and the first gold nugget with minerals and fossils from Australia, exhibited by James Tennant; Phillips's maximum thermometer with Sir William Thomson protective shield contructed by Louis Pascal Casella, exhibited by J. G. Symons; photographs showing colour effects by Niepce St. Victor, exhibited by Henry Baden Pritchard; natural history wood engravings, exhibited by Arthur Smee; painting of a coast in Wales by John Brett, exhibited by Mr. Browning; meteoric stones and irons, exhibited by James Reynolds Gregory; fossils from Lake Baikal, exhibited by J. H. Lamprey, Royal Geographical Society; Madreporaria dredged by Count Louis Francois de Pourtales and by the expeditions of HMS 'Porcupine', exhibited by Peter Martin Duncan; patent disinfecting apparatus, exhibited by Nelson and Sons, Leeds.
Room 4: instruments for obtaining the specific gravity of gunpowder by A. Ladd and of wood, by Alexander Stewart Herschel, exhibited by A. Ladd; single horse tramways, exhibited by J. C. Haddan; chart of 324,198 stars, exhibited by Richard Anthony Proctor; microscopes, exhibited by Powell and Lealand; photographs of the Podura, exhibited by Royston Pigott; photographs of early Christian architecture in Ireland by Miss Stokes and from Erzerum by Consul Taylor, exhibited by J H Lamprey, Royal Geographical Society.
Room 5: crystals of gold silver and other metals in formation, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone; Thomson's testing instrument for telegraph cables, exhibited by the India-Rubber Gutta-Percha and Telegraph Works Company.
Room 6: telespectroscope, spectroscope, micrometer, reflecting telescope (by John Brett) and solar eyepiece (by Professor Pickering), exhibited by John Browning; large goniometer, exhibited by Elliott Brothers; trace computer invented by Francis Galton, exhibited by the Meteorological Office; decomposition of water and iodide of ethyl by zinc and specimens of deposited suboxide of copper, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe; electrical steering apparatus for yachts and ships, exhibited by Alfred Apps, 433 Strand; 10-inch transit theodolite made by Messrs Cooke of York and exhibited by permission of the Secretary of State for India; drawings of the ruins of Paris, exhibited by Richard Phene Spiers; photographs of paintings by the Berlin Photographic Company, exhibited by Mr I. Gerson, 5 Rathbone Place; engravings of historical personages, exhibited by James Anderson Rose.
Passage: catropic lamp, exhibited by T. A. Skelton; ordnance survey maps of London, exhibited by Sir Henry James; map of the distribution on typhoid and other fevers in England and Wales, exhibited by Alfred Haviland. |