| 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 (wine and ices on the Ground Floor).
Room 2: sketches of the ruins of Tiahuanaco [Tiwanaku] in Bolivia, exhibited by Richard Inwards; Professor S. P. Thompson's wave motion machine and his double pendulum apparatus, exhibited by Sylvanus Phillips Thompson; John Mattias Augustus Stroh's curve writer, exhibited by W. Groves.
Room 3 (Reception Room): photographs from ancient and modern paintings, Rembrandt, Rubens, Vandyck and others, published by the Berlin Photographic Company (the series continues in Rooms 4 and 5), exhibited by J. Gerson, 5 Rathbone Place; a selection of sketches of the remarkable effects of sunset and afterglow 1883-1884 [caused by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption] second series, exhibited by William Ascroft.
Room 4: young fish (Gobius) hatching, carnivorous plant (Drosera) with captured insect, ovisac of mollusc (Nassa) and hydroid zoophyte (Halecium), mounted with extended tentacles, exhibited by Frank Crisp; Amphipleura pellucida mounted in a new medium of refractive index 2' 4 by Professor Hamilton Smith of Harvard University viewed with a new 'homogenous immersion' 1/6 of 1' 5 'numerical aperture' made by Messrs. Powell and Lealand, exhibited by John Mayall junior; microscope devised by E. M. Nilson, bacillus of tubercle, microtomes (2) as devised by Dr Golding Bird, exhibited by Swift and Son; copy of William Lassell's drawing of the nebula in Orion, exhibited by Robert Stirling Newall; engraving of the corona as observed at Sohag, Egypt, during the eclipse of 17 May 1882, exhibited by William de Wiveleslie Abney and Arthur Schuster; drawings by William Wesley from photographs of the corona taken in the absence of an eclipse, exhibited by William Huggins; sketch of clouds and lightning by Claude Lorrain, exhibited by Mr. G. W. Reid; simplex repeater board, Wheatstone's telegraphic apparatus in operation, Skrivanow batteries in table lamps and working a small motor, selection of galvanometers, electrometers, resistance coils and other testing instruments, exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
Room 5: electrical apparatus manufactured for the Commercial Cable Company (Mackay Bennnett Atlantic Cables) consisting of Muirhead's condensers and inductive resistances exhibited in operation to illustrate Muirhead's system of duplex telegraphy applied to submarine cables, an artificial cable of the same electrical dimensions as the cable now being laid by SS 'Faraday' working duplex with Sir William Thomson's siphon recorders one at each end of the line, exhibited by Messrs. Latimer Clark, Muirhead and Company Limited; instrument for drawing the separate elements of harmonic expression, designed by General Strachey, constructed by Messrs. Lege, exhibited by the Meteorological Council; experiments on the discharge of electricity through gases, exhibited by Arthur Schuster; Dr Hugo Schroeder's new camera lucida, exhibited by Ross & Company; new glass cases for the exhibition of reptiles and batrachians as used in the gardens of the Zoological Society, containing three examples of a giant toad (Bufo agua) of South America and a specimen of Heloderm lizard (Heloderma suspectum), exhibited by the Zoological Society of London; collection of posy-rings, ancient and medieval rings and jewelry, Saxon brooches beads and other antiquities, exhibited by John Evans; photographs of landscapes and studies, exhibited by Vernon Heath.
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