| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with occasional descriptive text. The usual arrangement by rooms is not given in this catalogue.
Photographed spectra of twenty-two elementary bodies, extending from blue rays to the extreme ultra-violet; autotype enlargements of spectrum photographs arranged in series according to Mendeleff's system, exhibited by Walter Noel Hartley.
Specimens prepared by Robert Koch showing the bacilli of tubercle. 1. Of a tubercle from a human lung, the bacilli shown as blue rods on a brown ground. 2. Section of a tuberculous lymphatic gland from a guinea pig. 3. Similar section from a cow, affected with bovine tuberculosis (Perlsucht) showing bacilli in the giant cells. Also specimens of the bacilli of leprosy, of mouse septicaemia, of erysipelas in rabbits and of Bacillus anthracis, exhibited by William Watson Cheyne and E. M. Nelson.
Acoustical reflections and interference, exhibited by John Tyndall.
Apparatus to illustrate experiments on attraction and repulsion due to sonorous vibrations, exhibited by John Mattias Augustus Stroh.
Methanometre automatique, an instrument for analyzing the explosive gas in coal mines, exhibited by M. Monnier.
New secondary battery for the storage of electrical power (in action), exhibited by Messrs. Sellon and Volckmar.
Graphic registry of sunshine for the year 1881, exhibited by Robert John Lecky.
Universal sunshine recorder, exhibited by Mr Louis Pascal Casella.
Art photographs, Holland House, Kensington from a negative 55 inches in length and six landscapes English, Scottish and Welsh scenery, exhibited by Vernon Heath.
Wenham's universal inclining and rotary microscope, exhibited by Frank Crisp.
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