| 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: experiments in thermal electrolysis, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe; illustrations of electric distribution in electrolytic media, exhibited by Alfred Tribe.
Room 2: Amphipleura pellucida with 1/8th oil immersion object glass and Pleurosigma angulatum with 1/25th oil immersion object glass, exhibited by Messrs Powell and Lealand; stereoscopic projection of the southern hemisphere showing the stars contained in the Cape Catalogue of 1880, exhibited by Edward James Stone, Director of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford; meteor of 7 June 1878 observed at Exeter and painted by Miss M. A. Hicks, exhibited by Henry Perigal; silver ore in sandstone from Silver Reef, Washington County, Utah Territory, USA, exhibited by Admiral Selwyn.
Room 3 (Reception Room): engraved portraits and views in Elba [no exhibitor listed]; sunshine recorders for fixed and variable latitudes, with Stokes' improved zodiacal card frame, exhibited by Robert John Lecky.
Room 4: the late Professor James Clerk Maxwell's dynamical top, exhibited by William Ladd; some original vestiges of astronomical apparatus constructed and used at the Slough Observatory by Sir William Herschel with a small portrait of the late Sir William Herschel, exhibited by Alexander Stewart Herschel; Roscoe's actinometer for measuring the total chemical effect of daylight, nephoscope designed for the Meteorological Council by Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney, exhibited by Horace Darwin; Professor Balfour's thermal actinometer [no exhibitor listed]; maps showing the motion in iron lines in the solar spectrum, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
Room 5 (Principal Library): heliostat for a 12-inch mirror, constructed for Samuel Pierpont Langley, Director of the Allegheny Observatory, Pennsylvania [no exhibitor listed]; Christie half-prism spectroscope to be used with the large equatorial constructed by Alvan Clark for Professor Charles Augustus Young, Princeton Observatory, New Jersey, USA, exhibited by Adam Hilger; large Holtz machine of novel construction [no exhibitor listed]; new form of spectroscope by George Mitchell Seabroke, exhibited by John Browning; apparatus and experiments illustrating the conversion of radiant energy into sonorous vibrations, exhibited by William Henry Preece; electrometer showing the transmission of electricity by flame, exhibited by Admiral Selwyn; a new microscope stand designed and constructed by Robert B. Tolles of Boston USA, a new microscope stage designed by Francis Herbert Wenham and constructed by Messrs Ross, a new 1/12th homogenous immersion objective constructed by Messrs Powell and Lealand, (object exhibited Amphipleura pellucida) exhibited by John Mayall junior; special dissections of insects by Mr. W. T. Loy, exhibited by Frank Crisp; photographs, glimpses of Nature in panels, exhibited by Vernon Heath; early printed books belonging to the Royal Society, exhibited by the Royal Society; specimens of charcoal after use showing how rapidly the filtering media become useless with hard water (obtained from Messrs Atkins), exhibited by W. Stephen Mitchell.
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