| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's twice-yearly annual displays at Burlington House, London, with occasional descriptive text. Arranged by rooms, Rooms 1-5 and Ground Floor.
Room 1: refreshments, tea and coffee.
Room 2 (Reception Room): sketches in oil of landscapes and flowers in India, exhibited by Marianne North; Imperial Order of 'Shafakat' of Charity, instituted by the Sultan for ladies only, and conferred by His Majesty on Baroness Burdett-Coutts and an assegai from the battlefield of Isandula, exhibited by Angela Georgina, Baroness Burdett-Coutts; ancient ring worn by Grand Masters of the Order of Malta on ceremony days, boxes of Cairngorm stone, watch made by Abraham-Louis Breguet for the Prince of Wales, afterward King George IV, exhibited by the Rev. William Bentinck Letham Hawkins; carved agates, forms of corundum, ammonites from Lias and Oolite and iron sand from Cyprus, exhibited by James Tennant.
Room 3: sketches in oil of landscapes and flowers in India, exhibited by Marianne North.
Room 4: rhodium, ruthenium, palladium and platinum in ingot, melted iridium, osmium, iridio-platinum wires, pure iridium - malleable, iridio-platinum kilo weight, three iridio-platinum measures, exhibited by Messrs. Johnson, Matthey and Company; vibrations of a cord excited by a tuning fork showing nodes, magnet with wheel armature, Arago's magnet experiment, polarizing crystal, microscopes and Helmholz's apparatus for sound analysis, exhibited by William Ladd; photograph (9 feet by 7 feet) in facsimile of the painting of the Madonna di San Sisto in the Dresden Gallery, exhibited by J. Gerson, Berlin Photographic Company, 5 Rathbone Place.
Room 5 (Principal Library): experiments with the original induction-currents balance apparatus described in a paper read to the Royal Society May 15, exhibited by David Edward Hughes; Professor David Edward Hughes' new audiometer, made and exhibited by Messrs. Krohne and Sesemann; the audiometer and instrument for measuring the sense of hearing, invented by David Edward Hughes, exhibited by Dr Benjamin Ward Richardson; the sphygmophone an instrument for making arterial pulsations audible by telephone, exhibited by Benjamin Ward Richardson; Thollon's new compound prisms showing the spectra of gases, table polariscope showing rings in crystals, Stephenson's binocular microscope, Edison's new micro-tasimeter, theatre proximoscope, exhibited by John Browning; a new measuring polariscope, exhibited by William Grylls Adams; portable instrument for approximate measurement of vertical magnetic force, designed to aid in correction of compass 'heeling error' in iron ships, exhibited by Sir William Thomson; photographs of an original picture of Princess Alice by Heinrich von Angeli and of seven paintings by English artists in the Royal Academy exhibitions of 1878 and 1879 and Old Master paintings, exhibited by J. Gerson, Berlin Photographic Company, 5 Rathbone Place; Roman Imperial gold coins, exhibited by John Evans; gold laurel wreath the gift of working men to the Earl of Beaconsfield, made and exhibited by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell; and the armorial casket, made and exhibited by Mr. G. A. Rogers; photographs of views in the Isle of Skye and Highlands of Perthshire, exhibited by Vernon Heath; Donkin's harmonograph with parallel and rectangular motions, exhibited by Tisley and Company.
[Ground floor?]; specimens of chromo-photographs by Albert of Munich, exhibited by Robert Henry Scott.
Ground floor: refreshments, ices etc. |