| 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: the comet of 1882 as seen from Cannes, France, 21 October and 21 November, telescopic view of the Transit of Venus at sunset over the mountains of the Esterels at Cannes, exhibited by Charles James Blasius Williams; specimens of iron ores from Shetland and Devonshire, exhibited by Sir Francis Knowles.
Room 3: photographs of paintings, 'The Farmer's Protest' by Ferdinand Martin Cordt Brutt, 'Baptism of the great grandchild of the Queen' by Anton von Werner, 'In the Palm House at Spa' by Gabriel Emile Nicolet, 'Lucretia Borgia dancing before her father' by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 'Cromwell's visit to Milton' by David Neal, all photographed by the Berlin Photographic Company, 'Christ disputing with the Doctors', by Heinrich Hofmann, published by Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich, exhibited by J. Gerson, 5 Rathbone Place.
Room 4: 25 drawings and sketches [all listed] taken during a few months' visit to the North American States and return by Canada and Nova Scotia, exhibited by Alexander Blaikley, 62 Edith Road, West Kensington.
Room 5: new forms of electric shunts for use with currents of high tension and large quantity, exhibited by William Spottiswoode; small coil for tubes, bichromate battery, six microscopes, two graphoscopes, one academy camera, two prism spectroscope, rain band spectroscope, one self-registering aneroid, one star spectroscope with universal slip, microscope objects and vacuum tubes, exhibited by John Browning; selection of resistance coils, keys, switches and other instruments, exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers; the new extended slide rule arranged by Major-General John Caulfield Hannyngton, in use in the Statistical Department of the India Office, exhibited by the India Office; specimens of slide rule - various [no exhibitor listed]; the original first telephone of Philipp Reis, modelled on the human ear (1861), the original telephone shown by Philipp Reis to the Physical Society of Frankfurt-on-the-Main on 26 October 1861, and an original telephone of Philipp Reis with its receiver (1863), exhibited by Sylvanus Phillips Thomson; Maxwell's mechanical model for illustrating the production of induction currents, trotting horse and other animals photographed from life shown in the zoetrope, exhibited by Tisley & Company, 172 Brompton Road; garlands from the tombs of Rameses II, Amenhotpan I, and Aahmes I received from Georg Augustus Schweinfurth, Cairo, medallion portraits of Admiral Sir James Clark Ross and Sir John Richardson, and drawings by Thomas Bewick, exhibited by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew; watercolour drawings of Cornwall, Wales and the Alps, exhibited by George Barnard; photographs of landscape and studies, exhibited by Vernon Heath; large photographs from modern paintings published by the Berlin Photographic Company, including 'Greetings between reformers and humanists', by Otto Knille, 'Luther preaching in the Wartburg', by Hugo Vogel, 'The tribute money', by Anton von Werner. 'Transfiguration' by Eduard von Gebhardt, 'King Frederic William I of Prussia meeting the expelled Tyrolese Protestants', by Nauhaus, 'Hamlet and the Players', by Wladyslaw Czachorski. 'The Coquette' by Conrad Kiesel, 'On the ice' by Hans Dahl and 'Broken through the fence' by Kromer, exhibited by J. Gerson, 5 Rathbone Place. |