| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual display at Burlington House, London. Arranged by rooms. Rooms 1-7 and 'Passage'. Commencing with the note: 'The rooms are lighted by Messrs. Gardner with oil lamps fitted with Silber's burners'.
Room 1: landscape watercolours, exhibited by George Barnard; autotypes, exhibited by Spencer, Sawyer, Bird and Company; landscape photographs of the USA, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society; book, engravings and the original manuscript of cantos 3-4 of Childe Harold by George Gordon, Lord Byron, exhibited by John Murray; bronze antiques and molds from the Isle of Harty, Sheppey, exhibited by John Evans; Japanese carvings in ivory, agate, rock crystal and jade, exhibited by Robert Rawlinson; artefacts and ornaments from Kashgar and Yarkand, China, exhibited by Mr. Shaw.
Room 2: mechanism to illustrate probable derivation of complex leaf-order, exhibited by Hubert Airy; Yellowstone Valley watercolours, exhibited by W. Blackmore; touchstone used in gold and silver assay at the Tower of London Mint, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts [later Roberts-Austen]; elevation of the facade of the Palace of Chosroes at Mashita [Taq Kasra, Iraq], exhibited by James Fergusson; waste-not water cistern, exhibited by J. Tylor and Sons; Barker's continuous hydraulic brake, exhibited by Mr. C. Baly; air battery, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone; Nicol's prisms, exhibited by Mr. A. Ladd; production of solid nitrous oxide, exhibited by Mr. T. Wills.
Room 3: small bore rifle, exhibited by Major-General John Theophilus Boileau; improved rifle, exhibited by Captain O'Hea; instantaneous microphotographs of animalculae, exhibited by E. J. Gayer, surgeon Bengal Army; model of apparatus for firing guns at sea, exhibited by Henry Bessemer; model of breast work of the turret ship 'Devastation', exhibited by the Controller of the Navy; specimens of condensed peat fuel, exhibited by Messrs Henry Clayton Son and Howlett; ozokerit from Wallachia, exhibited by Frederick Field; improved anemometer, exhibited by Mr. Adie; life-jacket, exhibited by Mr. W. Forster, Dover; diamond rock borer, exhibited by the Diamond Rock Boring Company; relief etchings, exhibited by Mr. J. Leighton; photographs by the uranium process, exhibited by Colonel Stuart Wortley; Meyerina clariformis from the Philippines, exhibited by Mr. S. W. Silver; cores from the Sussex Sub-Wealden Exploration, exhibited by Mr. H. Willett and Mr. Etherbridge; British tertiary fossils and photographs of the diamond fields of South Africa, exhibited by Professor James Tennant.
Room 4: improved Thomson-Varley sliding resistance coil and speaking galvanometer, exhibited by Elliott Brothers; instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquids and blocks of wood showing the effects of new explosives, exhibited by Hermann Sprengel; apparatus for dissections under binocular microscopes, exhibited by James Smith; travelling barometer, exhibited by Captain George; engraved historical portraits, exhibited by James Anderson Rose; photographs of landscapes and people of Formosa, exhibited by Mr. Thomson.
Room 5: Large spectroscope, new colouring matter in the micro-spectroscope, microscope contrived by John Browning, exhibited by John Browning; apparatus to show effect of magnetism on electrolysis of water, a new ozone generator, large Nicol prism made for William Spottiswoode, exhibited by Messrs Tisley and Spiller; improvements in duplex telegraphy, exhibited by Richard Spelman Culley; improvements in electrical signals, exhibited by William Henry Preece; succulent plants from South America, exhibited by Joseph Dalton Hooker; autotypes of trees, landscapes, exhibited by Vernon Heath; photographs of scenes and people in Queensland, Australia and Port Darwin telegraph traverse, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society; carvings, clothing, implements, weapons and photographs of the Ainos, Japan, exhibited by Lieutenant Swinton Colthurst Holland, HMS 'Sylvia'; photographs of the regalia of Armenia and churches of the Caucasus, exhibited by J. H. Lamprey; silver tankard belonging to Carl Linnaeus, exhibited by Professor [Nils August] Wilander, Stockholm.
Room 6: Craig and Bidder's safety lamp with magnetic lock, horseshoe magnets and explanatory diagram, exhibited by the Museum of Practical Geology; boat lowering and detachment apparatus, exhibited by Messrs E. J. Hill and Latimer Clark; model of a Channel passenger steamer, exhibited by Mr. S. J. Mackie; models of swimming stair-passes for salmon, exhibited by Mr. Richard Cail, Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; casts of fishes, live fish in aquaria, head of a bladder-nosed seal [hooded seal] and club, telegraph cable pierced by a sawfish, copper pierced by a swordfish and a model of Penarth Pass, river Severn, exhibited by Frank Buckland.
Room 7: effect of light on conductivity of selenium and specimens of Clark's standard batteries, exhibited by Latimer Clark; safety lamps, types by Humphry Davy, George Stephenson and William Clanny, exhibited by Mr. W. Galloway.
Passage: drawing by J. H. Lamprey of the relics of Barentz's Nova Zemla expedition of 1579, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society; drawing of Tanna island [Vanuatu] with volcano [Mount Yassu], exhibited by J. H. Lamprey; ancient Peruvian pottery, exhibited by the Anthropological Institute. |