| 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 2, 4 and 5 only. With additional descriptive sections at the end of the catalogue on the exhibits of Francis Warner and Dr. Braidwood.
Room 2: microscopes with drawings and examples of human contagia, exhibited by Dr. Braidwood; working model of the Aeolus or waterspray ventilator as applied to the ventilation of passenger vessels, exhibited by the Aeolus Waterspray and General Ventilation Company; photograph of the nebula in Orion, exhibited by Andrew Ainslie Common.
Room 4: goniometer and lecture electrometer arranged by Professor Clifton, Thomson's reflecting galvanometer square case form, tangent galvanometer, dial pattern resistance coil, Kew pattern magnetometer, Kew pattern dip circle, testing key arranged by Mr. F. Lambert, parallel ruler designed by Harry Robert Kempe, registering stamping apparatus by Messrs. Ferguson and Kempe, artificial horizon attachment for sextant, invented by Mr. Tennant, duplex repeater board, Wheatstone's transmitter, wedge photometer and portable photometer, designed by Robert Sabine, exhibited by Elliott Brothers; Petrological microscopes, Beck's (London), Bertrand's (Paris), Fuess's (Berlin), Martens' (Berlin), Nachet's (Paris) and Swift's (London), exhibited by Frank Crisp.
Room 5: new position micrometer with solar eyepiece and electric illuminator, constructed for Ankitham V. Nursinga Row, Vizagapatam Observatory, half prism spectroscope with micrometer and counter devised by George Downing Living, exhibited by Adam Hilger; two specially insulated electrometers showing the passage of electricity on rays of light, exhibited by Vice-Admiral Jasper Henry Selwyn; apparatus to exemplify the effects of coal dust in colliery explosions and the phenomenon seen in mines known as 'Firedamp Cap', exhibited by Mr. W. Galloway; apparatus for obtaining graphic records of various kinds of movements of the hand and its parts, exhibited by Francis Warner; apparatus used in determining the thickness of black soap films, exhibited by Arnold William Reinold and Arthur William Rucker; David Edward Hughes' torsional balance and John Mattias Augustus Stroh's sonorous vibration apparatus, exhibited by Mr. W. Groves; universal sun dial and sunshine recorder with Professor Stokes' zodiacal frames, Josiah Latimer Clark's patent transit instrument, new metallic thermometer, cylindrical reading glass illustrated by the Challenger Reports, two revolving albums with portraits of representative men with autographs, exhibited by Charles Coppock, 100 New Bond Street; garlands from the tombs of Rameses II, Amenhotpan I, and Aahmes I received from Georg Augustus Schweinfurth, Cairo, and exhibited by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. |