| 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 1-5.
Room 1: refreshments, tea and coffee.
Room 2: circulation in the Vallesneria with 1/16th immersion object glass and patent binocular, and volvox globator, exhibited by Messrs. Powell and Lealand; Toppler's influence electrical machine with 20 plates, exhibited by William Spottiswoode; cross and collar of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, ancient official ring of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, miniature of Queen Henrietta Maria by Sir John Hoskins and miniature of Napoleon 1st, by Joseph Parent, exhibited by Rev. William Bentinck Letham Hawkins; views from the ancient cities of Central America [no exhibitor listed].
Room 3 (Reception Room): series of views of the Royal Gardens and Precinct, Kew, 1700-1829 and views of botanic gardens in the colonies, exhibited by Joseph Dalton Hooker; evening view of Kinchinjunga [Kangchenjunga, between Nepal and India], from Darjeeling, exhibited by Marianne North.
Room 4: De La Rive's experiment, showing the rotation of an electric spark round the poles of a magnet, exhibited by W. Ladd and Company; treble staining of animal tissues showing the different chemical reactions of the various elements, longitudinal section of a whole kidney, double stained, stereoscopic effect with high power and Wenham binocular shown with 1/12 oil immersion by Powell and Lealand, exhibited by Heneage Gibbes; calculating machine (arithmometer), solar compass (Frasi and Goodsall's patent), Dark's patent steam indicator, and 'Integrator' or 'Moment Planimeter' by Jakob Amsler-Laffon, exhibited by Messrs' Elliott Brothers; autotype photographs part of a series of landscape and tree studies for the Melbourne Exhibition, exhibited by Vernon Heath.
Room 5 (Principal Library): David Edward Hughes induction balance, latest form, exhibited by W. Groves; large spectroscope with battery of prisms of biniodide of mercury and potassium prepared according to Dr. Liveing's method, automatic spectroscope with biosulphide of carbon prisms for screen experiments showing the spectra of gases with end on tubes, micro-spectroscope showing the absorption spectrum of a small sponge from Gulf St. Vincent, Ricardo's new combined thermo-pile and galvanometer, exhibited by John Browning; large Christie direct-vision solar spectroscope constructed for the Royal Observatory, Brussels, exhibited by Adam Hilger; the oncosimeter, an instrument for recording graphically the changes in volume in substances at high temperatures, with diagrams showing changes in iron passing from solid to liquid, exhibited by J. [eg Thomas?] Wrightson; Winstanley's radiograph, an instrument continually recording the intensity of solar radiation and marking down the number and nature of intercepting clouds, and an air thermometer, exhibited by D. Winstanley; large photographs of the Sun taken at the Observatory, Meudon, France, presented by Jules Janssen, exhibited by [the Royal Society]; stone implements from British Columbia, exhibited by Joseph Dalton Hooker; paintings of Mount Rosa and the Marjelen See, by George Barnard, exhibited by permission of Hugh Adair; paintings of the Wetterhorn, Eiger and Matterhorn, exhibited by George Barnard; photographs by the Berlin Photographic Company of modern paintings and paintings in the National Gallery London, with photographs by Franz Hanfstaengel of paintings at the Pinakothek in Munich, Germany, exhibited by J. Gerson, 5 Rathbone Place.
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