| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with occasional descriptive text. Arranged by room. Rooms 1-5.
Room 1: tea and coffee. Other refreshments available on the Ground Floor.
Room 2: photographs of paintings, including 'The Congress at Berlin', by Anton von Werner, 'The wise and follish virgins', by L. von Piloty [Karl Theodore von Piloty], 'Sappho', by Lawrence Alma Tadema, 'Dem Meister (Apotheosis of Wagner), by Ferdinand Keller and an album of photographs after modern masters, all by the Berlin Photographic Company, exhibited by I. Gerson, 5 Rathbone Place; plant case containing wheat, oats, barley and rape in relative states of development grown with and without the aid of electric light, exhibited by Charles William Siemens.
Room 3 (Reception Saloon): views of Kitshin-gunga [Kishanganga, India] and of the coast of Ceylon, exhibited by Marianne North.
Room 4: new secondary battery for the storage of electrical power (in action), exhibited by Messrs Sellon and Volckmar; miniatures of Oliver Cromwell and General Monk, by Henry Pierce Bone, Countess of Dorset, Countess of Guildford and George Cannning, by Richard Cosway, Queen Marie Antionette, by Anne Vallayer-Coster, Madame de Pompadour by Louis Marie Sicardi, tortoiseshell box with a miniature of Bourdaloue in enamel, by Jean Petitot, exhibited by the Rev. William Bentinck Letham Hawkins; collection of Chinese snuff bottles, exhibited by Augustus Wollaston Franks.
Room 5: spectrometer with variable prism constructed for the Liverpool Observatory by direction of Oliver Joseph Lodge, large 3-prism compound prism with rectangular ends, Charles Piazzi Smyth's large bisulphate of carbon prism, improved form of star spectroscope comprising six sets of prisms of different material devised by Stephen Joseph Perry and constructed for Stonyhurst Observatory, collection of prisms in flint, Iceland spar, quartz and others, 1-inch radius sphereometer, exhibited by Adam Hilger; collection of Greek and Roman gems from the sites of ancient cities in Dalmatia and the Illysian provinces, exhibited by Arthur John Evans; Roman, Saxon and Merovingian jewelry medieval, historical and posey-rings, exhibited by John Evans; new specimens of Lambeth pottery and large vases, exhibited by Henry Doulton; drawings from Mentone and the coast of Genoa with scraps from Lago Maggiore to illustrate the Queen's Spring visits, exhibited by George Barnard; Dartmoor, sketches from Nature, including prehistoric hut-dwelling under Kestor, stone circle Scor-hill, prehistoric bridge over the Wallbrook, the Teign and Wallabrook, the cromlech at Shilstone near Drewsteignton, exhibited by Harry Johnson; Holland House and other photographs, exhibited by Vernon Heath. |