| 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: microscopes, exhibited by Powell and Lealand; eight miniature paintings, of Prince Henry, son of James I, by Isaac Oliver, Queen Henrietta Maria, by Jean Petitot, Duke of Gloucester, by Christian Friedrich Zincke, Queen Elizabeth, by Nicolas Hilliard, George III, by Christian Friedrich Zincke, Charles II by Samuel Cooper, Queen Anne by Christian Friedrich Zincke, and Queen Marie Antionette [no artist], exhibited by Rev. William Bentinck Letham Hawkins; spirograph, indicating the volume of air expired and the amplitude of each respiration, exhibited by William Marcet; watercolour drawings of the Matterhorn, Jungfrau, Silber Horn and Eiger, exhibited by George Barnard.
Room 3 (Reception Room): photographs of modern paintings, Old Masters from the National Gallery, London, and the Rubens in the Berlin Museum purchased for £10,000, exhibited by J. Gerson, Berlin Photographic Company, 5 Rathbone Place.
Room 4: brake action recorder for testing the efficiency of railway brakes and a diagram showing the effect of changing the number of brakes, exhibited by Frederick Joseph Bramwell; plan of the South Eastern Railway Company's speaking instrument circuits, plan of telegraph and block systems, plan of Post Office and submarine wires maintained on road and rail, exhibited by Charles Vincent Walker; David Edward Hughes' type-printing telegraph, exhibited by the Submarine Telegraph Company.
Room 5 (Principal Library): Mr Whymper's explorations in Ecuador, including photographs of Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and other Andean scenes, birds and humming birds, butterflies and beetles collected from sea level to a height of 16,000 feet, Inca pottery, ancient polished stone implements and objects, exhibited by Edward Whymper.
Room 6: large improved Holtz machine, new time globe, microscopes with living objects, student's botanical dissecting microscopes, new large field achromatic pocket lens, exhibited by John Browning; balance hygrometer, exhibited by Wildman Whitehouse; 18-inch patent illuminating induction coil, apparatus for fluorescence and discharge in vacuo, black 30-inch mirror fitted with vacuum tubes, selection of Crookes' radiant matter tubes, open-work model aneroid barometer with compression and exhaust tube, exhibited by Alfred Apps; apparatus for measuring the electrical resistance of liquid films, exhibited by Arnold William Reinold and Arthur William Rucker; Tisley's constant medical battery with modified De La Rue cells, exhibited by Tisley and Company; microscopal objects from the Zoological Station at Naples, exhibited by Frank Crisp; series of articles illustrative of opium smoking in China; paintings from Pompeii. Views of Innsbruck and panels of Maximilian's tomb [no exhibitors listed].
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